uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

Fri Mar 30 22:48:40 UTC 2012

On Mar 30, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Henry Yen wrote:
> 
>> uunet/vzb "will terminate its United States Newsreader and Newsfeed
>> services on March 31, 2012, with no plans to offer a replacement, and
>> any content/data remaining after that date will be unrecoverably deleted".
>> 
>> does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful comments on this?
> 
> UUNet's still been running NNTP/NNRP servers?
> I had an NNTP feed from them...back in 1995...when you could actually do a feed on a T1 and have room for dial-up customer traffic.

There's a flashback! I was still shoveling news over UUCP to customers in Texas in '93 :)

-b