[steptoe]

I used the paid news for a few reasons :

1) AOL don't support NNTL

2) The retention is at least 14 days for virtually everything, frequently at least 30 days

3) They have the newsgroups I'm looking for


I've looked at NTL newsgroups contents, if you're interested in the better alt.binaries ... errr what have NTL got. Not much


I've used NewsBin Pro, its all over the place, NewsLeecher is what I've settled with as everything is in front and is very good at what it does. Multi-threading, all parts of posts are auto-dowloaded, you don't have to track it down yourself, but I do admit if you want to upload to newsgroups you can't, thats why its called NewsLeecher

This is MY choice, no doubt everybody has their own choice, I have tried probably all the popular newsreaders, and stick with what I'm happy with

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oh yeah, and for $15 a month I get total unlimited downloads with no download limit at any time

If I download 20GB a day or 1GB a day, it makes no difference