Which usenet provider?

[222MHz]

Altopia.com

SSL
5 connections
No limits..
No throttles
$9/month

[zot]

Altopia.com

SSL
5 connections
No limits..
No throttles
$9/month

but only 12 days retention

Also, Altopia appears to operate without any backup. They had a massive server crash last week that permanently knocked out retention of existing articles.

Considering that retention is about 240 days (planned) on Giganews and 140 days on Astraweb, I think I'd have a hard time getting by on just 12 days retention on multipart binaries.

Altopia is said to be a favorite news provider of spammers and trolls, as they've developed a reputation of letting their users post things that most news providers don't tolerate.

Another option to save money might be to combine a low-cost short-retention unlimited account with a non-expiring long-retention block account such as Astraweb's.

[222MHz]

Well 12 days has been alright for me so far... I might look to something with a little longer retention in the future. The price was right after my ISP dropped usenet access.

[hitman51]

which can i pay with paypal?

[222MHz]

I'm pretty sure GigaNews accepts PayPal.

[OmaRin0]

I use NewsDemon unlimitide plus
I never had a problem with them
110 days retention is enough for me

[hitman51]

I'm pretty sure GigaNews accepts PayPal.

GigaNews is expensive

[tnt]

hitnews.eu (http://www.hitnews.eu/english/)
120+ days retention
accept paypal
normal price
acct sharing
try 3 days trial before you make a decision

[jbloggs]

is it true at astraweb

- unlimited - $10 a month (1 Mbps rate limit)

but for an extra $1 ($11/mth) you get unlimited download, unlimited speed, 20 Connections, 141 day retention.

[zot]

I would have to agree that Astraweb is about the best value available in Usenet newsgroup service right now. One of the cheapest AND longest retention (140+ days) services at the same time.

Both in Astraweb's $25(US) 110 gig 'never-expires' block, and their current special of $11/month for unlimited service.

www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html

Hitnews unlimited service is also about the same price, but retention is listed as 100 days, and a few people have said in the past that some groups have a lot less than 100 days retention.