In July 2008, Giganews made big news for increasing their USENET retention to 240 days. Most other providers had a maximum of about 160 days, but several of these are now promising to surpass Giganews.
Giganews is quite expensive, costing $25/month for a unlimited package. The retention and speed made up for this, but I have [...]
Usenet providers dramatically increase retention
Giganews has now 100 days of retention
The usenet provider Giganews announced today that they would increase the retention of all binary newsgroups to 100 days over the next two weeks. If you never have heard about the usenet before let me explain the concept with just a few words. The usenet can be divided into binary and discussion groups. Thousands of binary groups for every purpose, from mp3 to movie to games exist and every user who has usenet access is able to download all the files that get posted to the usenet daily.
