uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

Sat Mar 31 03:15:58 UTC 2012

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 20:40:06PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> Just curious, what's the source of this uunet announcement (as in a
> link or cite, not "uunet!")?
> 
> On March 30, 2012 at 16:41 henry at AegisInfoSys.com (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".

it was a written letter to (some or all) transit customers of verizonbusiness.
no, the word "uunet" isn't in there, but that's how i think of them, even
before wcom and mci (and metro fiber).

i was more interested in comments regarding the feed (nntp) side rather
than the reader (lotsa choices, including gated feeds, dejanews/google, etc.).

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