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Rayner Lucas

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Greetings All,
Altopia sent me an email telling me they will no longer be providing
NNTP service. So I need a new one to continue to read the few
newsgroups I still participate in.
Looking online for reviews I read that some NNTP providers store
posts for as long as 11 years. This might be a good thing as I was
looking for a few posts on rec.crafts.metalworking that I'm sure I saw
less than two years ago but don't seem to be available anymore, at
least from Altopia.
So, recs please?

I'm happy with eternal-september.org. It's completely free to register
and use, and it has always seemed competently run. It does not carry any
binary groups.

Retention is claimed to be 160 days for the big-8 hierarchies, but all
groups I've looked at have posts dating back at least a couple of years
and often longer.

If you need binary groups and/or longer retention times, Giganews
advertises 17+ years retention for text groups and 3+ years for binary
groups. I don't have personal experience with them, though.

Rayner