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ITC Announcement/Retirement of Usenet News Service

December 19, 2007

ITC plans to retire the Usenet network news service on December 19, 2007.

Usenet News has been active at UVa for over twenty years. During this time, it grew from a modestly-used service to one of our most active, providing online discussion space for UVa classes and technical groups, programming help, and even groups with local appeal, like want ads and an "online" ride board. In recent years, technologies including the Instructional Toolkit, weblogs, private Web services, and instant messaging have contributed to declining activity on the UVa Usenet service. Even though activity is low, maintaining this service consumes technical and support staff resources, as well as server capacity. Accordingly, ITC has decided to discontinue the service in December.

Several alternatives exist for access to Usenet services:

Please email service-comments@virginia.edu with any questions or comments.

Information Technology and Communication/UVa

Posted: 2007-11-29

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