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From: Dorian Gray on 9 Apr 2010 05:30 > From: Matthew Vernon (RSS to News) <matthew(a)sel.cam.ac.uk> > Subject: Newsgroups and bulletin boards > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:27:00 +0100 > Newsgroups: ucam.comp-serv.announce > Message-ID: > <184616faf1f334d1c180b6168c90ad09ca9b1790(a)tylerdurden.greenend.org.uk> > > 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. > -- > This is an unofficial gateway of the Computing Service's Announcements > RSS feed to news. > > For the official news articles, see: http://ucsnews.csx.cam.ac.uk/ Hmm, :(
From: James Jolley on 9 Apr 2010 06:20 On 2010-04-09 10:30:09 +0100, Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> said: >> From: Matthew Vernon (RSS to News) <matthew(a)sel.cam.ac.uk> >> Subject: Newsgroups and bulletin boards >> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:27:00 +0100 >> Newsgroups: ucam.comp-serv.announce >> Message-ID: >> <184616faf1f334d1c180b6168c90ad09ca9b1790(a)tylerdurden.greenend.org.uk> >> >> 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. >> -- >> This is an unofficial gateway of the Computing Service's Announcements >> RSS feed to news. >> >> For the official news articles, see: http://ucsnews.csx.cam.ac.uk/ > > Hmm, :( And we should care why? There are free servers anyway if you're that bothered.
From: Rowland McDonnell on 9 Apr 2010 12:59 Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: > > From: Matthew Vernon (RSS to News) <matthew(a)sel.cam.ac.uk> > > Subject: Newsgroups and bulletin boards > > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:27:00 +0100 > > Newsgroups: ucam.comp-serv.announce > > Message-ID: > > <184616faf1f334d1c180b6168c90ad09ca9b1790(a)tylerdurden.greenend.org.uk> > > > > 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. > > -- > > This is an unofficial gateway of the Computing Service's Announcements > > RSS feed to news. > > > > For the official news articles, see: http://ucsnews.csx.cam.ac.uk/ > > Hmm, :( Usenet's been dying for some years. Still, the above notice is rather sad. And apparently not an April fool, either... :-( Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Paul Womar on 10 Apr 2010 03:53 James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-09 19:34:55 +0100, > real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) said: > > > > And you should post this, why? > > Because it's hardly relevant to most people is it? Him in his little > backwater uni? I don't think that's a valid reason against posting here, particularly when this group is dedicated to a minority computing platform. The article actually seems to say that JANET is discontinuing it's feed which is where most/all Uni's would take their feed from. -- -> The email address used in this message *IS* valid <-
From: James Jolley on 10 Apr 2010 06:41
On 2010-04-10 08:53:49 +0100, {$PW$}@womar.co.uk (Paul Womar) said: > James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-04-09 19:34:55 +0100, >> real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) said: >>> >>> And you should post this, why? >> >> Because it's hardly relevant to most people is it? Him in his little >> backwater uni? > > I don't think that's a valid reason against posting here, particularly > when this group is dedicated to a minority computing platform. The > article actually seems to say that JANET is discontinuing it's feed > which is where most/all Uni's would take their feed from. Fair enough. Usenet isn't an essential service any longer, much as we'd like to hope it was. I didn't expect that the servers for it would be all that hard to maintain though. |