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Giganews ups retention to 300 days

Giganews announced last week that they had set a new Usenet milestone, upping binary retention to 300 days, a first for any provider.

Retention time is how long Giganews stores data available without deleting to make room for new content.



“Reaching 300 days of retention is a definite high-water mark for us and for Usenet as a whole,” Philip Molter, Giganews CTO added, “As the industry leader, we are excited to offer such lengthy retention times to our customers, and we continue to work toward our goal of a full year’s worth of binary retention.”

The company added that it plans to up retention time again to one full year (365 days) by August.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 9 Jun 2009 23:23

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• 13 comments

• hape

  Actually Giganews wasn't the first one. Newsgroupdirect was three days faster.
  
  http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/

  10.6.2009 04:22 #1

• pollution

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  10.6.2009 15:13 #2

• geestar20

  @-pollution-
  
  Why PM you when they can get it straight from there web site
  
  Astraweb

  10.6.2009 15:32 #3

• pollution

  .

  10.6.2009 21:31 #4

• geestar20

  Quote:For brownie points. Neat :P

  10.6.2009 21:44 #5

• varnull

  referral scam then eh?
  

  
  
  Free open source software = made by end users who want an application to work.
  I would rather you hate me for who I am than love me for what I am not.
  “It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.” - Bruce Schneier

  10.6.2009 22:04 #6

• hikaricor

  Newsgroupdirect however sucks balls.
  Terrible customer support and some serious server issues.

  10.6.2009 22:26 #7

• malcarada

  Giganews is funding interner censorship organisations such as the IWF (you can find Giganews logo on their page). I would not touch Giganews with a bargain pole, the internet was meant to be free of censorship.

  11.6.2009 07:19 #8

• PRCOQUI

  Astraweb, Retention Capacity Upgrade to 365 Days
  http://www.news.astraweb.com/

  11.6.2009 11:45 #9

• DVDBack23

  Originally posted by PRCOQUI: Astraweb, Retention Capacity Upgrade to 365 Days
  " target="_blank">http://www.news.astraweb.com/
  
  You must work for them...they have capacity for UP TO 365 days, but currently sit at 295.

  11.6.2009 12:45 #10

• hape

  Actually Astrawebs retention grows every day. After two months it will most likely be full year.
  
  He didn't say the retention would be 365 days now. So calm down a little. :)

  11.6.2009 15:25 #11

• DVDBack23

  Originally posted by hape: Actually Astrawebs retention grows every day. After two months it will most likely be full year.
  
  He didn't say the retention would be 365 days now. So calm down a little. :)Everyone is calm, AstraWeb says they currently offer 295 days on their frontpage, it is not relevant to the article what they may or may not have in a few months.

  11.6.2009 17:46 #12

• BurningAs

  Originally posted by malcarada: Giganews is funding interner censorship organisations such as the IWF (you can find Giganews logo on their page). I would not touch Giganews with a bargain pole, the internet was meant to be free of censorship.What!? Do you know what newsgroups are used for?

  11.6.2009 21:52 #13