JANET and cam.ac.uk cutting Usenet News feed from July
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From: Dr Geoff Hone on 12 Apr 2010 10:25 On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:30:09 +0100, Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: >> For many years the University has run a Usenet News service, >> supporting access to worldwide newsgroups and also to newsgroups local >> to the Cambridge area or to the University. The use of newsgroups has >> been dwindling over the last few years, and in July JANET is >> discontinuing its Usenet News feed, from which the Cambridge >> University server is supplied. And at least one "High-Tech" university cut off the Usenet access around 10 YEARS ago. Demand for the news-groups was reducing, and the bandwidth could be better utilised. Geoff
From: Dorian Gray on 12 Apr 2010 10:32 In article <D.Gray-3DE255.16355310042010(a)nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk>, Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: > I see a lot of threads > about various Usenet News servers and their > reliability/cost/features/groups, and the headers they support, and very > little if any of that has nothing to do with Macs, yet are never marked > OT. It seems to be consensus that such discussions are on-topic here. Typo. Sorry, typed then edited improperly; I meant of course "very little if any of that has anything to do with Macs"...
From: Dorian Gray on 12 Apr 2010 11:36 In article <m%own.73374$3T3.60148(a)newsfe28.ams2>, Graeme Wood <Graeme.Wood(a)ed.ac.uk.nospam> wrote: > Without a feed there isn't much point in universities maintaining their > servers. The only alternative is for universities to negotiate their own > newsfeeds. Given the current funding squeeze most, if not all, will be > discontinuing their news services after July. Actually, here is the full announcement: <http://ucsnews.csx.cam.ac.uk/articles/2010/03/30/newsgroups-and-bulletin -boards> "...users wishing for continued access to non-University newsgroups will have to make their own arrangements. One possibility is Google Groups at http://groups.google.co.uk/" Ewww. "To substitute for the ucam newsgroups hierarchy, the Computing Service is now planning to implement a phpBB3 system integrated into the University's web authentication system. ..." Anyone have experience with such a system?
From: Ben Shimmin on 12 Apr 2010 11:55 Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid>: [...] > "To substitute for the ucam newsgroups hierarchy, the Computing Service > is now planning to implement a phpBB3 system integrated into the > University's web authentication system. ..." > > Anyone have experience with such a system? Yeah, lots. Web bulletin boards (or fora) suck in comparison with a decent usenet client. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 12 Apr 2010 14:02
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:03:01 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >On 2010-04-10 19:14:37 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > >> On 2010-04-10 17:51:02 +0100, James Jolley said: >> >>> >>> I'm curious to know what the average usage would be now on modern >>> computers with Binary type servers. >> >> It would be a frightening amount. > >That's why i'm curious. All those movies you know. Would be interesting >to see how accurate server's retention rates are as well. Last figure I saw, from Easynews.com about two years ago, was 4.5Tb/day and rising. Cheers - Jaimie -- There's no limit to the amount of work someone can do, provided it's not the work they're supposed to be doing. |