Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> Seems perfectly reasonable to me.  The NNTP protocol can be used for
> lots of things and not just public newsgroup discussions.  For a company
> that has a lot of offices distributed around the world there could be
> many applications for it. 

Microsoft uses it for support of their semi-public product betas.  I
think they also use it for internal support.

R's,
John