JANET News Reader Service
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
The following information is available:
- JANET Usenet News Service Information Pack
- Organisations which are currently clients of the service
- Service application e-mail template
- Reporting illegal material e-mail template
To request for assistance or change to the News Reader Service, e-mail the JANET Service Desk at service@ja.net.
About the service
The JANET News Reader Service complements the existing JANET News Feed
Service. It is provided for the benefit of JANET customer organisations
that wish to give their end users access to Usenet News but do not want
to operate a News server of any kind.
The service is free of charge to institutions with a Primary JANET connection. However, this service is designed for use by organisations with small News reading requirements.
It is expected that a reader organisation will prepare their own instructions, conditions and advice for end users.