On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Henry Yen <he...@aegisinfosys.com> 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?
This is really about: "What do our customers pay for?" more than anything else. Keeping 12 diablo servers running for the zero actual customers who use them is ... patently a waste of assets. one server is ~1 sun-something + 1 large disk-array (at least)... so there's some significant savings in power and network ports alone. plus, Verizon is a Cellular carrier, just look at all of the advertisements you see for them, ever seen an "internet" add? or "usenet" ? (fios doesn't count as it's a move by VZ back to monopoly-carrier status, not "internet")
