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Giganews ups retention to 300 days

article published on 9 June, 2009

Giganews announced last week that they had set a new Usenet milestone, upping binary retention to 300 days, a first for any provider. Retention time is how long Giganews stores data available without deleting to make room for new content. ?Reaching 300 days of retention is a definite high-water mark for us and for Usenet as a whole,? Philip Molter, Giganews CTO added, ?As the industry ... [ read the full article ]

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10. June 2009 @ 04:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Actually Giganews wasn't the first one. Newsgroupdirect was three days faster.

http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/
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10. June 2009 @ 15:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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@-pollution-

Why PM you when they can get it straight from there web site

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For brownie points.
Neat :P
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referral scam then eh?
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Newsgroupdirect however sucks balls.
Terrible customer support and some serious server issues.
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Giganews is funding interner censorship organisations such as the IWF (you can find Giganews logo on their page). I would not touch Giganews with a bargain pole, the internet was meant to be free of censorship.

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Astraweb, Retention Capacity Upgrade to 365 Days
http://www.news.astraweb.com/
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11. June 2009 @ 12:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by PRCOQUI:
Astraweb, Retention Capacity Upgrade to 365 Days
http://www.news.astraweb.com/


You must work for them...they have capacity for UP TO 365 days, but currently sit at 295.
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11. June 2009 @ 15:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Actually Astrawebs retention grows every day. After two months it will most likely be full year.

He didn't say the retention would be 365 days now. So calm down a little. :)

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Originally posted by hape:
Actually Astrawebs retention grows every day. After two months it will most likely be full year.

He didn't say the retention would be 365 days now. So calm down a little. :)
Everyone is calm, AstraWeb says they currently offer 295 days on their frontpage, it is not relevant to the article what they may or may not have in a few months.
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Originally posted by malcarada:
Giganews is funding interner censorship organisations such as the IWF (you can find Giganews logo on their page). I would not touch Giganews with a bargain pole, the internet was meant to be free of censorship.
What!? Do you know what newsgroups are used for?
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