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Posted by Timothy Daniels on September 11, 2006, 10:52 pm
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"Agent_C" wrote:
> Retention and completion are TERRIBLE on Roadrunner. I'd strongly
> advise a premium news service, such as Giganews.
Well, maybe I'll have to convert my Comcast account with GigaNews
to an individual account. That will really bite into the $12/month difference
in subscription costs between Comcast and TimeWarner, though. I
guess you get what you pay for. It seems that with all ISPs, the 1st thing
to go as the price comes down is Usenet service.
*TimDaniels*
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Posted by Winston on September 11, 2006, 4:30 pm
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> How is the breadth of NGs and retention time for text NGs on the Road
> Runner news servers?
In the text groups, my impression (based on the 100+ I subscribe to and
comments by others) is that completion is decent and retention is 4+ days,
up to a couple of weeks, depending on total volume. Their 'history' file,
though, seems to be only 2 days long, so sometimes articles from 2 days
ago reappear as new articles. That *may* be a hack to try to improve
binary group completeness.
In the binary groups, my impression (based on complaints from others a
couple of years ago) is that completion wasn't so good and that retention
was as low as 2 days when volume is high.
As to the number of groups, RR policy (last I heard) is to carry only those
groups that their customers have expressed interest in. If you want one
they don't have, just ask and they'll add it (usually on the next Monday).
HTH,
-WBE
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Posted by The Kat on September 11, 2006, 6:03 pm
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wrote:
>> How is the breadth of NGs and retention time for text NGs on the Road
>> Runner news servers?
>
>In the text groups, my impression (based on the 100+ I subscribe to and
>comments by others) is that completion is decent and retention is 4+ days,
You're DAMNED lucky!
Here in SoCal, we're lucky to get 24 hour retention and 50% complete
on binaries. Text groups are better, of course.
Lumber Cartel (tinlc) #2063. Spam this account at your own risk.
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Posted by Winston on September 11, 2006, 7:02 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options >>> How is the breadth of NGs and retention time for text NGs on the Road
>>> Runner news servers?
I replied:
>> In the text groups, my impression (based on the 100+ I subscribe to and
>> comments by others) is that completion is decent and retention is 4+
>> days,
> Here in SoCal, we're lucky to get 24 hour retention and 50% complete
> on binaries. Text groups are better, of course.
... and it was the text groups Timothy asked about and that I was talking
about in the part you quoted. Sorry to hear that binary groups in your
region are still so bad.
-WBE
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Posted by $Bill on September 12, 2006, 3:27 am
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> You're DAMNED lucky!
>
> Here in SoCal, we're lucky to get 24 hour retention and 50% complete
> on binaries. Text groups are better, of course.
Luckily, I'm in SoCal and TW has left us on Adelphia's Giganews
for the time being. The longer they take to do any switching -
the better. Would be nice if they would just leave it there
permanently.
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