@zot - I understand your complaints to a point about what everyone calls the Highwinds farms - which I personally think is stupid because the providers you mentioned are not running on the same farms they are different farms (Easily seen with different cross post discrepancies..resellers do run on same farm as the tier1 counter part) entirely especially Easynews - Everything about Easynews is custom, but to say that nothing major has changed for these brands is not correct, less than 2 years ago all the providers you mentioned had < 450 days bin retention...Usenetserver, newshosting both have a bin retention of 978 days - that is more than doubling article retention in that small time frame, that is a huge feat. That said, let me be perfectly before some flamer starts yammering on, I happen to love newshosting and have used them as well as the other brand mentioned over the years and yes I have banners for them on our blog, but I am not saying that what everyone calls the "Highwinds brands" are the best NSPs around - I am just saying they should get a fair shake. There are alot of nsp haters here that talk alot of smack about things that are in the past. They are all a very long way from where they were 2 years ago I think anyone who has used them recently would have to agree. Astraweb does get props on full completion most of the time, but that is well because they simply don't take anything down....they are supposed to but if you compare NZBs you will find completes where everyone else seems to be missing articles. Anyway I will close by saying that one thing is for sure, we as usenet users are very lucky because we now live in a time where NSPs are plenty and plenty cheap
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