On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:51:28 +0200, Popeye <popeye@mailnesia.com>
wrote:
>On 2016-01-13 20:35:14 +0000, Vreejack said:
>
>> Do I need to switch providers? Giganews seems to be randomly dropping
>> old segments of everything. Even old text messages are disappearing
>> from threads, though I think there is a non-retention protocol for
>> that that some people are using...though I have no idea why.
>
>I use https://newsgroupdirect.com/ . I bought a 2TB block for $55 in
>2013, and since I only use usenet to get rare PDFs and books, I've used
>up barely any of my alloted bandwidth. Even with the odd film I've
>downloaded over the last few years, I've only used 200gb I think.
>
>*However*...subscribe to their mailing list and wait for a sale. They
>sell 2TB blocks every few months for $70 these days.
>
>I don't work for the company, fwiw :D
>
>-Popeye
I believe there is a setting on my reader to automatically access a
secondary server only if a part is missing from the default server.
I remember that SABnzbd did this. Might try it out.
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