Originally Posted by
zot
I just noticed that the retention posted on the website increased from 650 days last weekend to 783 days today. Other Highwinds-(re)selling sites are still listing 650, so obviously they're no longer Highwinds resellers.
Downloaded a 783-day ZNB as a trial. Works.
Did a tracert on both server farms, and it's almost identical to Blocknews, so that answered my question of whether they switched to Astraweb as a provider (which also has about the same retention)
So the good news is that they have increased retention by 180+ days, have better completion/fewer deletions, and are now totally uncensored (OK, that's debatable whether it's really good news or not)
But it also means that we can no longer use a Usenet-News block as a fill-in server for Blocknews/UsenetNow since they now both use the same backend.
Also, I might point out that Ngroups current "Oktoberfest" special of $10/month (lifetime) for unlimited +SSL is currently the best price that I know of (for a service with 780+ days retention and two server farms, that is)
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