news.virginmedia.com retention ?

[greeninferno]

Is anyone else currently using the binary usenet server seeing bizarre retention periods ?

i.e. I can download headers for 7 days max on any given group.

However can download complete archives from 60 days old to 200 days old using nzb.

There seems to be a hole from 7 days to 60 days.

Anyone seen this just seems strange

[Neil1454]

I don't think there any where near 200 days lol

7 is more closer. I'm unsure of how many days exactly but an NZB is just a 'place' and 'file' index of the download. Apart from that it will not enable you to obtain anything different than what a manual download from a listed binary group would.

Tech support might now. But patience it needed depending on what time you call.

[ShaneC]

the vm service comes from newshosting who have 200+ days retention. I guess their filter may be incorrect as you are only supposed to get 7 days from the service provided to vm customers.

[horrorwood]

Yep I just tried a post that was 120 days old and it downloaded... but a post that was 20 days old did not.

Thats nice of them

[greeninferno]

Just seen this post form virginmedia.support.broadband.cable on text.news.virginmedia.com

Hi S1571,

The retention as been increased. However at the moment, (as is my understanding) this is still in the beta stages of testing.

I would carry on working on the original limits and we will let you know when we know.

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Kind Regards

Mark Rothmans
Virgin Media Technical Support
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Wonder what the max retention will be after testing.

Adding value to 50 MB connections perchance ?????

[Walford]

I think's it 7 days for binaries but much longer for normal news groups.