News-Service.com Retention Details

Actual Binary Retention:    328 Days (currently increasing)
Actual Text Retention:      1467 Days (currently increasing)

Our actual retention for all binary newsgroups is 328 days. This concerns all binary newsgroups, including the less popular newsgroups.

We keep headers/overview for binary newsgroups for minimal 55 days with a maximum of 13 million headers per newsgroup. After this period articles can still be downloaded by MessageID (for example with nzb-files or index servers).

The retention for text newsgroups is 4 years, 7 days and is still growing.