Newsdemon isnt the best by any means but an alright deal none the less.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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Assuming you are from NewsDemon, I have a question, since newsdemon is a co-founder of a backbone (UsenetExpress):
Since the daily feed size bloated so much, isn't everyday cheaper to add a lot of older content instead of keeping retention up to date to the most?
Do you guys think about doing so?
I know you share stats about only a small percentage of downloads being old data, but there are so much good content available at old usenet that is lost to any other form of download these days (ISOs of full old DVDs that were never relaunched as Blu-Ray for instance).
Do you guys consider picking it up in the future? I mean, going some days back in retention looks cheaper that keeping a new day up. Ain't it?
@privadesco @TheMachineStops and how would you obtain that old retention?
By peering older days from the usenet itself? Doing it from nzbs could also be something. There is a lot of old content at many indexers.
The major reason I feel trapped to Omicron is that I enjoy (no so much) cult content from every possible place and language. And a big part of it is 2008~2013.
I see all the NewsDemon advertising and way to do business and I feel sad to be unable to just drop omicron for my use case.
@privadesco you can't retrieve old uploads via peering. The peering is just for the current feed to exchange dafa that is uploaded. If you would use the NZB files you would need another provider that has them and then upload them on your own backbone. Such things are against the ToS of most/all providers.
Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know about the peering being only for new content. I was thinking of simply downloading the full feed of another provider and adding it to their own (automatically, somehow). But if there is small print avoiding that, then it can't be done.
I was thinking about the storage cost only.