On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:44:26 GMT, Wednesday Weld <notues@hotslot.com>
wrote
> On 2016-11-01 12:28:43 -0400, fred-bloggs said:
>
>> Today the major US providers have reached 3000 days retention on
>> binaries (that's 8 years and 78 days).
>
> That's only back to 2008!
> What happened to the previous 10 or so years? No nsp saved that?
> Why are all the major providers the same length of retention?
>
>
It used to be that NSPs had a fixed retention (eg 300 days), older posts
would be removed and the disk space re-used. With the fall in price of
hard drives the major NSPs decided to retain everything they had and
retention started increasing. Once one NSP started that they all
followed suit, hence the 3000 days.
Any files posted prior are lost unless they have been reposted within the
last 3000 days.
Text retention is greater on some NSPs.
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fred
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