Some technical questions about usenet

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Thechoosenone

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Hey guys,
So I have been using Usenet for a while now but there are something I still don't understand:

1. What makes a post incomplete in the first place? To transfer files, I am pretty sure they use TCP protocol, isn't TCP supposed to deliver file in a pristine condition?

2. How can usenet providers make profit if they charge such as low price? I downloaded 300 GB plus last month, and paid $11 to astraweb. Usually, other hosting company like godaddy.com charge a fortune for 100 GB per month, (they say their unlimited but that's a lie).
 
I can't answer the first question, since I am no expert. The second one I can answer though.

Companies such as Astraweb will have thousands of customers, many of them will use the service very little (sometimes even not at all) and just keep paying the money because it is not that much, it does not affect them. Meaning there will be plenty of bandwidth for the heavy users. Also I suppose astraweb would buy so much bandwidth and have contracts with various major internet backbones that they would get it fairly cheap.

:)
 
1) I'm pretty sure it's not the fault of TCP or the protocol used to upload, but while messages propagate from one server to another, it looks like some are left out. They might also be stored on a news server which then experiences hardware problems that affects these parts, or some articles are out of the retention's reach.

Feel free to add/ revise :)
 
I'm not positive, but usenet has a massive amount of content. Petabytes(maybe exa or higher) of data are on usenet being indexed everyday from one provider, so I'm guessing theres bound to be mishaps.
 
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