[ale] Usenet service with binary archives dating back to April 2008?

[James Sumners]

Likely you will not find _any_ provider than keeps a.b.boneless around
that long; not even if they claim to. That generates so much traffic
it would take it's own server farm to have that sort of retention. My
provider, Newshosting, claimed 110 days when I signed up with them. I
was unable to pull some things from a.b.hdtv.x264 after 99 days. The
official response was that the advertised retention is an "average."
On groups with the shear massive amount of data like the two
mentioned, the retention is a little less.

A few months ago they bumped retention to 250 days, and it looks like
they bumped it to 400 in March. I still try not to go past 99 days on
the large groups.

Also, these extremely long retentions are new. Even Giganews was only
at 150 days until earlier this year. So no one is going to have
anything dating back to April 2008 (at least not binaries).

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I've seen the same 1 year limit. I'm looking for
> alt.binaries.boneless which is a complete random mad house.
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:56 AM, David Ritchie <deritchie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh, nevermind. You said binary. ngroups.net claims 400 days... google
>> "long retention time binary news feeds" and see what else comes up..
>> no endorsement should be
>> inferred... most appear to be capped around 365 days...
>>
>> -- Dave



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