Giganews vs Usenetserver

[High Roller]

Hey Stephen, how about a comment on my initial post (110 000 newsgroups with Giganews compared to 68 000 newsgroups with Usenetserver) ? Is 68 000 still fairly accurate ? If so, do you plan to catch up ?

 

[European Women rocks]

The difference is empty groups. If there is a group you want to see that we don't have we will be happy to add it. There are only about 30k groups that are actually used, the rest are junk...

-Stephen

Hey Stephen, On UsernetServer's status page ( http://www.usenetserver.com/networkstatus.html ) the group alt.binaries.dvd only has 17 days retention. Do you know why is that? Is it a bug or something? And does it affect other groups?

 

[LennyB]

I am new to uneset, i will probably go with giganews

 

[Philip M]

The difference is empty groups. If there is a group you want to see that we don't have we will be happy to add it. There are only about 30k groups that are actually used, the rest are junk...

-Stephen

Thanks for the reply. I may switch to usenetserver before the end of the month, unless Giganews responds by cutting down on their price. Which I suspect they won't. They'll just increase the retention again (once Usenetserver has 101 days).

 

[Kevo D]

I am new to uneset, i will probably go with giganews

You can sign up for a trial account on Giganews if you want. It's max 1GB but at least you can try before you buy

 

[(his)noodly_appendage]

Hey Stephen, On UsernetServer's status page ( http://www.usenetserver.com/networkstatus.html ) the group alt.binaries.dvd only has 17 days retention. Do you know why is that? Is it a bug or something? And does it affect other groups?

Check out this thread in the Slyck.com forums:

http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30993

-Stephen