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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
I think the commercialization of the clients and for-pay usenet hosts is likely what popped it up on the radar. The cheapest usenet/nzb client on the Mac app store (just as an easily referenced data point) is $19.99. Then there's the usenet provider monthly/yearly fees on top of that - the whole thing is a bit of a racket really.
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$19.99?? Why not use free open source stuff like Sabnzbd? Everything gets automated and it's more convenient than torrents with something like that.
ISPs still have usenet service, just not the retention the pay hosts were giving out. 30 days vs 1200?