uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

Fri Mar 30 22:06:05 UTC 2012

John Levine wrote:
>>>                              I thought it should have died when pr0n and
>>> w4rez took it over (in the late 90's)..
> Many of the tech groups remain quite healthy.  I still moderate
> comp.compilers which gets about 100 posts/month.
>
> Actually, it's fine with us that the ignorant masses think that usenet
> is dead, since it tends to keep out the riffraff.
>

And NNTP is still one of the most brilliant protocols ever written.  
Replicated information, no central control, ad hoc group creation.  It's 
really a shame that the Netscape Collaboration Server was never open 
sourced (easy newsgroup management, a layer of user management) - 
facebook or googlegroups without the centralized control.

Miles Fidelman

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra