uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

Sat Mar 31 20:36:52 UTC 2012

>Seems perfectly reasonable to me.  The NNTP protocol can be used for
>lots of things and not just public newsgroup discussions.  For a company
>that has a lot of offices distributed around the world there could be
>many applications for it. 

Microsoft uses it for support of their semi-public product betas.  I
think they also use it for internal support.

R's,
John