Re: does anyone even use usenet

On 8/13/2024 7:10 AM, Justisaur wrote:

On 8/13/2024 5:09 AM, Xocyll wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the

 

I pay for my usenet feed, but I'd be the first to admit it's not
really worth it. It has the benefit of uptime; I think that in the
however-many-years (10+) I've been a customer the number of times the
service has been down could be counted on a single hand that's been
involved in a thresher-accident. The immensely long archive of old
posts -spanning twenty+ years- is a nice feature too. But it's not
really worth the price for how I use Usenet (e.g. non-binary stuff)
and it's mostly inertia that keeps me from switching to a free
service.

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Considering the lack of traffic these days I really could not justify
that.
>
Xocyll

 I think I saw someone mention one that was just $10 a year for text groups, I'd pay that if it came to it, as long as this group is around anyway

I've been poking around newsreader groups.  Found another post you can buy a block of usenet data, someone mentioned you could probably go years and years on a $2 5gb block at blocknews.  If you really think you're going to use a lot they have higher tiers $9 for 100gb for instance, good until you use it up.
https://billing.blocknews.net/signup.php
Retention is slightly over 10 years, and they're increasing it backwards as time goes on.
I'm not sure if they have the spam filters set up though, like eternal-september.  That doesn't look like it's currently an an issue, but who knows if it will become one again, or if you're looking for old posts.
The other two free ones I mentioned in another reply do have spam filters. i2pn2.org and news.solani.org
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