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Giganews Increase Usenet Retention To 120 Days

April 13th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

I’ve been expecting Giganews announcement that it’s Usenet retention (how long old posts are kept for ) has been increased to 120 days, ever since I spotted that my favourite newreader newsleecher had increased it’s search function to 140 days.

Providing 120 days of retention is a major achievement when you consider the share amount of content that is posted each day in newsgroups, which is growing exponentially as file sizes get bigger and users get ever faster connections.

Martin quite rightly says that Giganews is “…the best Usenet provider on the planet…”. Not only does Giganews’ huge 120 day retention shame other Usenet services who tend to only provide 5-7 days retention, but the completion rate is virtually 100%.

If you haven’t tried newsgroups yet and want to get a feel for what’s available then have a look at Newzbin or Binsearch. These sites allow you to very quickly see what content is currently on the newsgroups.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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#1

Comment by Mr.Byte on 13 April 2007:

How does this actually work? I have never used or heard of any of these things before
#2

Comment by Vijay on 14 April 2007:

I recently registered at your forum for support and I never received the activation mail . It wasnt in my spam box as well.. The user ID was Vijay and my email ID is as given here.

What do I do? I tried resending the activation mail but no avail..

I had no idea where to post this as well, Sorry if I made a mistake
#3

Comment by Everton on 15 April 2007:

@Mr Byte

Usenet is the best way to download content - lightyears ahead of P2P/Bittorrent.

I wrote some guides yonks ago:

http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/11/19/connected-guide-newsgroups-for-beginners-part-i/
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/11/20/connected-guide-newsgroups-for-beginners-part-ii/
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/11/21/connected-guide-newsgroups-for-beginners-part-iii/

@Vijay

I just went to activate you but it looks like you sorted everything. Let me know if you’re still having problems
#4

Comment by Zath on 16 April 2007:

I’ve been using Easynews for years now, the best thing about that for me is the web-based search - does Giganews have a similar interface?

I’ve also tried a dedicated new reader in the past, but have never got along with it after several tries, but will give Newsleecher a go, it certainly looks more user friendly than the other ones I’ve tried and failed with.
#5

Comment by Everton on 16 April 2007:

Giganews doesn’t provide an interface, but Newsleecher couldn’t be easier to use.
#6

Comment by Zath on 17 April 2007:

The Supersearch from my quick bit of testing does seem to be very fast and comprehensive with the added bonus of taking away the need for all the individual mouse clicks that I have to do in using the web interface.

So far so good, am quite impressed with Newsleecher - a definite step up from the prvious newsgroup readers I’ve used.

Cheers!