From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   VanguardLH wrote:   
   > There are Usenet   
   > providers from whom you can purchase blocks of usage.  If you stay   
   > within text-only newsgroups, the blocks will last decades.   
      
   It is very hard to compare text group retention across block account   
   providers.  Typically the comparison sites only cite the /best/   
   retention for a provider which may be as great as >5000 days for   
   binaries, but 'unlisted' for the text groups, which are often MUCH less.   
      
   As an example, newsdemon, >5000 binaries, 720 text.   
      
   Except in the case of newsdemon, they publish that tally, whereas most   
   of them don't.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
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