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Perhaps it's because they've used the cheaper services and found them lacking? In particular, there seem to be a lot of issues with retention time (years, for
by wccrawford 14y ago
Perhaps it's because they've used the cheaper services and found them lacking? In particular, there seem to be a lot of issues with retention time (years, for Giganews!) and missing posts. Speed is also a factor.
It's not that they haven't tried the cheaper services. It's that those services just don't have the same quality.
- rb2k_ 14y agoAs far as I recall there are basically just 3 large providers and tons of resellers. There are e.g. Eweka (http://eweka.nl/en/usenet_toegang/specificaties/ http://eweka.nl/en/usenet_toegang/specificaties/) Or The Cubenet (http://thecubenet.com http://thecubenet.com) which don't fall short compared to the expensive counterparts with the large advertisement budget. EDIT: Here's a small overview about who resells what: http://www.usenet-providers.net/newsgroup-resellers.php http://www.usenet-providers.net/newsgroup-resellers.php
- ChiperSoft 14y agoThere's still dozens of small, basic service providers. Many universities run NNTP servers, as do ISPs. Cox used to offer a base NNTP service, for example, which was part of my cable subscription. I stopped using it because they had awful data caps and horrible retention.