uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

[jlewis at lewis.org (Jon Lewis)]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, 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?

UUNet's still been running NNTP/NNRP servers?
I had an NNTP feed from them...back in 1995...when you could actually do a 
feed on a T1 and have room for dial-up customer traffic.

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