uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

Fri Mar 30 20:55:14 UTC 2012

> On 3/30/2012 4:41 PM, 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?
>
> Obsolete protocol is obsolete?

Guessing: you mean ipv4?

Because NNTP is still alive and kicking.

... JG
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