News Services

Important Announcement Regarding News Services

There are now few active registered News Feed users and News Read users and the current infrastructure is nearing its end of life. JANET(UK) have therefore decided that it is no longer economically viable to run the service, especially in the current financial climate. We therefore will cease to offer the service when the existing contract expires on July 31st 2010.

News Read users are doubtless aware that there are alternatives such as Google Groups that they may wish to investigate and the current supplier has suggested that Feed users may be able to take over existing ISP feeds. If you would like to consider taking over the feeds please let us know and we will follow this up with the supplier.

Important Information about JANET Usenet News Feed Service Rationalisation

The JANET Usenet News Service is available free to all JANET organisations with a primary connection and is delivered via the following services.

• JANET News Feed Service: for large organisations that want to operate a Usenet News server of their own.
  
  
• JANET News Reader Service: for organisations that do not wish to operate and maintain their own Usenet News server.
  

JANET Usenet News Service information pack
To help organisations decide which service would best suit their needs and with other queries, the JANET Usenet News Service information pack is available in the form of a 'Frequently Asked Questions' list.