Best Paid Usenet service provider

[arjay]

use to be on astraweb, now on tweaknews, finding it alot better.

[linuxares]

Usenetserver is decent for the price, works most of the time. The best one I used is Tweaknews.

[seansea]

I switched from Giganews to Supernews about 6 months ago, as it appeared to offer similar service for 1/2 the price. I've been happy with it so far.

[hogwheeley]

Ive had usenetserver for over 5 years and its been good to me. Priced right and never really had an issue.

[robertrust]

Absolutely love usenetserver! Over 2000 days of retention and they offer a free two week trial I believe. I'm only paying like $10 per month and use it all the time. Check them out here: http://usenetserver.com/en/index.php?

[royce]

I've had good retention with giganews and usenetserver. I tried using blocknews for awhile but I was starting to see a lot of incompletes.

[2501]

giganews and usenetserver suck. there i said it. marketing shills can now go home.

[JunkBarMan]

frugalusenet is not bad. Good bang for the buck. Only 300 days retention, but nowadays due to takedowns you have to grab stuff fast anyways.

Why not using test.xennanews.com which is free and has about 900 days of retention ? Speeds are great as well

could never get this to work. and then i checked the sql and it works like a champ now.

is there a monthly data limit that you know of? or daily/weekly?

[Beck38]

but nowadays due to takedowns you have to grab stuff fast anyways.

Only if the poster is an idiot. Unfortunately, a large percentage are.

Since 'the matrix' went down, zero takedowns (confirmed by nzbcc and d/l recheck over 3-4 major server plants). Previous 10+ years, no takedowns then either of over 1TB/per month posted. I test back to 'day zero' (Aug08) all the time on Astra/US/EU, GigaUS/EU, BlocknewsUS/EU, even Usenet-ServerUS/EU.

Everything all depends on what you're looking for, and again, how much smarts the folk(s) who are into that are. If they are 'kiddies' who revel in 'pro wrestling' and the like (that are OC based), and don't put a nano-watt of brainpower into covering their tracks, then they get what they deserve (instant or near-instant takedowns). You'll have to put a large amount of effort into getting such things.

Those are well-covered on such sites as EFF/Chilling Effects and the like. Folks who do, using a variety of methodologies, have posts that at this point, remain forever.

[chakara]

How do you know people can "crack" the code and even know what you're uploading ?
Maybe it's still there because no one can figure it out. Hence no takedown. And no downloads ^^