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Subject: Re: By the way, it's official: UIUC Newsgroups getting cancelled


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Date Posted: 03:04:05 05/14/03 Wed
In reply to: Dena 's message, "By the way, it's official: UIUC Newsgroups getting cancelled" on 13:25:52 05/12/03 Mon

>I've known about this for a while, but haven't been
>able to say anything officially until it went up on
>the announcements page:
>
>Usenet support being dropped
>
>I guess this is another reason it was a good thing to
>switch to a web forum and not need to mess with the
>user restrictions on the UIUC newsgroups...

As someone within CITES, can you speculate at all on why they are axing all of Usenet (including the uiuc specific domains,) as opposed to cuting some/all of the outside feeds? I understand that the bandwidth is expensive, but maintaining the actual news server can't cost much. And what do you think the chances are of them not killing the uiuc.* hierarchies if enough CS professors kvetch?

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