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Here is the latest news in the world of News Service Providers (NSP)

Giganews and Astraweb over 500 Days retention
With both Giganews and Astraweb continuing to expand the retention beyond what everyone expected!, we have fully updated all the providers to the latest retention levels. We was quite surprised to find how many now have more than 400+ days retention.
The question is how much retention is needed? wasnt 365 Days enough???

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Giganews Announces Hits Over 300 Days Retention
Giganews eclipsed another Usenet landmark by reaching 300 days of binary retention. This milestone stands as the longest binary retention provided by any Usenet provider – ever.

Three-hundred days of retention means that Giganews stores more data for a longer period of time than any other Usenet provider.

“Reaching 300 days of retention is a definite high-water mark for us and for Usenet as a whole,” Philip Molter, CTO at Giganews, said, “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.”
Giganews, Inc., the world's foremost premium Usenet provider, today announced their commitment to extend content availability to an unprecedented 365 days. Giganews will continue upgrading data storage around the world, ultimately providing members with access to a full year of content.

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Giganews Announces Half Price Diamond and Platinum Accounts!
Timed with the retention announcement, the ‘Giganews 365 Special’ cuts the subscription cost of Diamond and Platinum unlimited accounts by 50% for the first three months for returning and new members. This puts the cost of an unlimited Giganews Usenet account at $12.49 for the first time.

"It’s an incredible time; we’re adding an additional day of retention every single day," said Philip Molter, CTO at Giganews. Molter added, "It won’t be long until we are providing a full year of retention. We’re tracking our progress on our website. We hope users will check the site often as we reach this new milestone in Usenet history."

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Astraweb Announces 365 Days Retention!
Astraweb is pleased to announce that we have just completed an infrastructure upgrade to increase our retention storage to 365 days.

Our retention is currently growing daily towards 365 days. The latest retention statistics as well as our retention capacity is available at:
Our retention growth is for ALL groups. Our retention growth also includes headers, unlike many other services that do not include headers as part of their retention growth.

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Newshosting Announces 400 Days Retention!
Newshosting, the world’s leading provider of premium Usenet newsgroup access, today announced they are extending Usenet content availability to an unprecedented, industry-leading, 400 days. Newshosting will continue upgrading data storage in the United States and Europe, ultimately providing members with access to 1 year and 35 days worth of content.