uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

Fri Mar 30 20:54:47 UTC 2012

Less, and less people keep using Usenet...
A lot of people just use Search Engine, Web download, P2P...
I guess given the traffic and data too stored, it may not be useful for the
effort to keep Usenet service running.

Alex

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Henry Yen <henry at aegisinfosys.com> 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?
>
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