On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:16:07 -0400, Michael Trew wrote:

> On 3/19/2021 12:06 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:20:26 -0500, Snag wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/17/2021 12:31 PM, Graham wrote:
>>>> Downloading posts from Blocknews has often been slow for a few days. Has
>>>> anyone else experienced this?
>>>> Sometimes, a couple of posts download quickly then the next is slow.
>>>> Strange.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I use it for alt.home.repair , haven't noticed anything funny .
>>
>> Why would use it for one group and not others? News servers work
>> identically for all the major text groups. They don't peer with
>> different servers for different groups.
>>
>> 0-sw
>
> Different retention rates, I'd assume. Alt.origins kept failing over
> Eternal September. My messages would retain for maybe a day or two.

Retention is much longer than 3 days on E-S. Text posts are
extremely small, easy to retrieve, and cheap to store.