I am/was using Giganews. Took out a subscription to Tweaknews yesterday and so far have had 100% success downloding all the "problem" files.
It will be a while before I am up to date and can identify individual problem episodes, where there are any.
As for using a block account, I will have to switch from SABnzbd, as this only asks the backup server if the main server actively says "I do not have these files." Missing/bad blocks don't work.
On 08 Jun 2014 12:06 AM ,Tom Fulery <TomFul76@Huckelberry.com> wrote:
> Are the files "broken", or does your current Usenet provider have a
> short retention period?
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> Have you considered subscribing to a block account to supplement your
> current news service, to fill in missing data?
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> I use Blocknews.net to supplement my Giganews account (which has
> substantial droppage of files uploaded in the 2009-2010 date range),
> and by using Blocknews for fills, I can usually get complete
> downloads, requiring only a minimum, if any, usage of PAR's, of files
> going back to late 2008.
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> Blocknews currently charges less than $15.00 for 100GB of download,
> (less than $22.00 for 200GB) which you only deplete when picking up
> the missing pieces, not the entire file.
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> Some posters may not mind reuploading series, but many will encourage
> you to beef up your downloading capabilities before they invest their
> time and bandwidth uploading an otherwise available series a second
> time.
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> Tom Fulery
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