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ldm314
join:2004-10-27
Sunnyvale, CA

ldm314

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news vs supernews vs altnews?

Is there a page that gives a good breakdown on the different news servers, like retention, general completeness, etc?

burrowowl
Sonic.Net
join:2003-01-22
Santa Rosa, CA

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»sonic.net/features/news/ was created for this specific purpose, but since its creation we have eased back on actively promoting the use of our alternate news offering. Supernews-that-was typically had much longer binary multipart retention but significantly lower speeds and more aggressive connection-limiting than news.sonic.net. Due to the nature of newsgroup traffic, we do not make firm guarantees about article retention and multipart completion that cannot made with genuine confidence.

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John Fitzgerald
Sonic.net Technical Support