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GTI
join:2002-08-13

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Re: News server retention

ATTBI news server's binaries retention is about 24 hours or a little less.
Basically it is a "get what you see NOW or else it will be gone".

DSLTech5
join:2000-12-30
San Jose, CA

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Yup, GTI has it right.. expect stuff to be gone/leaving the next day. So if post date is yesterday's date, download it ASAP cuz it'll be gone by dark.

UltimateTech
join:2002-03-19
Portland, OR

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From what I've read Verizon Online has one of the best news servers as far as ISPs go. The ATTBI retention was really poor. I'm looking forward to when we get switched to giganews, even though its only 1 gig a month the retention is really good, plus its a free gig. Right now I'm using easynews which has great retention for binaries and I'm always downloading from the servers at around 1.5mbps, but its $10 a month or every 6 gigs which can go by pretty quick.