On Mar 30, 2012 3:13 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
Looks more like news groups than cellular to me. : / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-K71MpwCko Cb > "usenet" ? (fios doesn't count as it's a move by VZ back to > monopoly-carrier status, not "internet") >