O Canada! > Canadian > TekSavvy > TSI Usenet vs. Paid Usenet

said by SaveTheNet:

Usenet does have its own weaknesses though.
No uploading, but you have PAR files to fix CRC errors.
Missing parts and the whole parts thing can get annoying
Sometimes you grab most of something just to find out a single piece is too old / gone and you have to wait for a PAR file to be upped just to fix the file or try again from the beginning.

Tried a pay to have usenet for a bit and found myself back on torrents, not due to being lazy, but since usenet simply didn't work so well at all for what I was looking for.
Even with a huge >250 day retention.
I didn't try multiple providers though, just the 1 that was both high speed and insane retention times.

HD content was like, 10's of thousands of pieces and this lead to alot of waste when things were missing..

If UBB comes, I feel using IRC could make a much better solution.