JANET News Feed Service
- Part of the JANET News 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 JANET News Feed Service lets JANET customers receive Usenet News feeds from a backbone of JANET News servers.
The following information is available:
- JANET Usenet News Service Information Pack
- Organisations which are currently clients of the service
- Joining the Service
- Reporting illegal material - e-mail template
About the service
The service can provide a full feed of all the newsgroups available worldwide, except for geographically limited hierarchies and groups excluded under the JISC 's policy forbidding illegal material. A customer organisation may choose to be provided with a News feed which does not include all the newsgroups available.
The service is free of charge to institutions with a Primary JANET connection.
It is expected that a News Feed organisation will prepare their own instructions, conditions and advice for end users.
For more information, or to request assistance or change to the News Feed Service, contact the JANET Service Desk (service@ja.net)