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dmc@puffin. (D.M.Chapman) writes:


Ok, end of this month is the end of an era - UKC will be shutting down it's
news service :-(

Seems hardly any universities run news services anymore so our upstream
feeds have reached EOL and won't be being replaced so we will be effectively
cut off. Given we would have to find (pay) for a new feed and also replace
our existing machine (Sun E250 - ancient) it's not going to happen :-(

I used to run the news service in Sun for Europe on a couple of
E250's, one for all the peering connections, and the other for
the client connections. Neither of them ever ran much above a
few % CPU using INN.

Given this, I need to find another news server I can use. I know people
on here have recommended stuff before - is news.Individual.net still a good
option?

Also news.eternal-september.org - free, but you have to register
on their website first to get a username/password.

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Andrew Gabriel
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