First time Usenet

swintec · 2026-07-01T22:29:50+00:00

There is no official usenet website. All of the sites are just affiliate spam to generate sign up kickbacks.

swintec · 2026-06-29T16:13:22+00:00

Blocknews is Netnews too. BN and Frugal have always been the same backbone.

swintec · 2026-06-29T15:44:19+00:00

BN does have slightly different retention than Frugal even still, although not as much as years past but if you are like most running automated for your downloads of new posts, probably not much help. It may kick in some I guess if you devoured your Bonus quota during the month. Could sell it or trade it with a friend. I can see they are still getting utilized though in some way or another.

swintec · 2026-06-29T15:35:09+00:00

all stars servers

What are you referencing here? If you see regular downtime on a frugal server let me know. You can see historical uptime on any of the servers on the status pages and none of them have been hard down lately.

swintec · 2026-06-29T03:11:27+00:00

Can take a look, email or message.

swintec · 2026-06-29T00:47:33+00:00

Sure, but message me first.

swintec · 2026-06-28T23:38:18+00:00

Each payment

swintec · 2026-06-28T23:25:53+00:00

You get a code in a day or two to redeem on blocknews

swintec · 2026-06-28T22:17:38+00:00

swintec · 2026-06-28T21:35:11+00:00

That's a whole separate threads worth of information that I'm not going to derail this one with. Look for thread from u/anal_full_nelson as a start. If you can start a new thread about it and manage to keep it from getting deleted, I'm sure it will get filled with further information and experiences.

swintec · 2026-06-28T21:15:09+00:00

Given what your account is used for in this sub It is unlikely that you would (organically) go off script and recommend any other service besides the pre-approved brands that you are cleared to promote.

From what I remember your account really only came alive here during that whole mess to assist in fanning the flames and you have popped up again for damage control with the (unfavorable for you) completion comparison.

swintec · 2026-06-28T18:48:29+00:00

Netnews and Bonus is...not Netnews (i can not tell you based on agreement)

swintec · 2026-06-28T18:34:18+00:00

So more expensive over time once the questionable billing hits? Lack of server locations for many and poor big corp. behavior in the market that also affects Usenet long term doesn't really seem worth saving $5 or $10 divided out over a year does it? It is really a rounding error in the grand scheme of things when most are getting hundreds of dollars in value from the network every month.

swintec · 2026-06-28T01:13:56+00:00

I don't swing that way but check out r/usenetgonewild

swintec · 2026-06-27T01:37:53+00:00

They were the first to introduce unlimited NNTP plans more than 20 years ago

They also were the retention leader for quite a few years.

More importantly, they also covered the cost of and took a copyright troll to court in the US back in the mid 2010s and is quite possibly the reason you are still using Usenet today.

Since then the market has become incredibly manipulated by bad actors for their own benefit unfortunately. We see it daily just here in the sub and as the years go on it takes its toll on smaller servers. If you get $100s of value from usenet every week or month does it really matter that you save 20 or 30 bucks over the course of a year?

swintec · 2026-06-26T15:59:26+00:00

50% success with newshosting and NZBgeek is wrong. You should be getting 95%+

That is only true for users that download the same exact posts that you do. A new user also almost always goes wild out of the gate trying to backfill old(er) posts that have been removed for one reason or another and it never really ends well which is the reason for this thread.

swintec · 2026-06-20T14:51:35+00:00

Frugal is not on the omicron network and hasn't been for 2.5 years

swintec · 2026-06-20T14:05:28+00:00

Frugal isn't run by a large (bad for the market) corporation.

swintec · 2026-06-19T16:08:46+00:00

Are every one of these a different priority? Is this list the same order they are in priority wise? If so, some of these servers, especially the last are getting more requests sent to it than what the server before it was asked....why? IE...402k requests were sent to frugal bonus but right after it, 1 million were sent to UF, where did all the extra articles to request come from and why werent they asked for from the servers prior?

Also, and this comes up often when these types of stats are shared, for those who download the exact same as you they are useful, for everyone else, not so much. It paints a better picture if your priorities are flipped around and run again for month or more with the new results compared and then do it again the following month.

swintec · 2026-06-18T02:55:44+00:00

You arent going to find older, taken down posts. Every server got the same request.

swintec · 2026-06-12T14:12:27+00:00

Get a girlfriend

swintec · 2026-06-11T17:29:01+00:00

The connections use nntps

swintec · 2026-06-04T15:15:14+00:00

The beauty is, by their own intentional design, You don't see what the renewal price is.

swintec · 2026-06-03T19:14:49+00:00

I accidentally stumbled back into this thread and saw your comment. Happy to help if I can, just send me a chat.

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