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Re: net.* hierarchy

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From: eag...@eyrie.org (Russ Allbery)
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Subject: Re: net.* hierarchy
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:03:25 -0700
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by: Russ Allbery - Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:03 UTC

Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> writes:

> Yet, it was not exactly what I was looking for; this is more a FAQ and
> how to configure a news server to carry Usenet II than an official
> homepage. It appears from discussions in this thread that such a
> homepage no longer exists. RIP.

Yeah, Usenet II was a failed experiment. It was active for a while, but
everyone slowly went elsewhere, mostly to another private hierarchy with
less ambitious goals and a much smaller number of peering news servers.

I've updated control.ctl to remove the legacy control information and make
it clearer that no one is using the hierarchy any more.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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net.* hierarchy By: Jason Evans on Mon, 7 Jun 2021	12	Jason Evans

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