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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
I used to use newsgroups extensively to download anime rather than BT. It started out awesome, but as time went by, files became more and more broken until finally I got fed up with it and just switched over to BT. I haven't used it in a few years now. Has it gotten better again? I'm not really computer literate enough to know indepth details on how newsgroups work, I just kind of knew enough to download stuff. I also used to download a ton of stuff during my university days. Now that I'm out of university and actually work, I only really download the stuff I have time to watch. I find BT pretty convenient, its just point and click. Newsgroup download speeds to rock though, I'll admit that.
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Most people who use usenet pay for a premium service that gives you 3-7 months of retained and complete files. Also, you need to use the par and par2 system to repair any missing blocks easily.
Shaw has outsourced it's usenet service to highwinds. On some servers you can get up to 160 days retention but on higher traffic ones like alt.binaries.boneless and alt.binaries.nl, retention is about 1-2 weeks.