uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

[bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)]

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".
 > 
 > does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful comments on this?
 > 
 > -- 
 > Henry Yen <Henry.Yen at Aegis00.com>               Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
 > Senior Systems Programmer                       Hicksville, New York
 >                                                 1-800-AEGIS-00 (800-234-4700)
 > 

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