Randori news?

Onakra · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 3:36 am Post subject: Randori news?

Does anyone have any experiences with the newsserver www.randori.com?
It looks like it's not too expensive with reasonable speeds. Only the retention doesn't seem that high.

LaughnCynic · Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 105

"AUTUMN SPECIAL - No Limit account - only $11.65 per month
(THREE MONTH MINIMUM - LIMITED TIME OFFER)."

Hmmm... No limit? They might regret that offer. Twisted Evil

Sounds good if completion is decent, however thier retention seems more on a par with what many broadband isp's offer as opposed to the better known premium servers.

"Our goal is to keep binary articles for 3 days and text articles for 4-6 weeks."

For folks with a fat pipe it looks on the surface like it might be worth checking out if they were in need of another premium server (or a replacement as primary server for those who's local servers really suck). The low retention kills it's potential usefullness for us tiny pipe folks.

I'm still quite content with Easynews.

(inc) · Joined: 18 Feb 2002 Posts: 356 Location: San Diego

Haven't really explored it, but Forte's (the Agent people) new service might fit some.

Chung · Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Posts: 79 Location: North Carolina, USA

"Retention up to 14 days for multi-part binaries. "

Heh, that could mean a retention of 12hrs for all anyone would know.. To me, it still seems like EasyNews is one of the best premium providers around. Just checked a few minutes ago and their retention for abma is at 21 days... and there was even a news log about them working on improving retention, so yay for easynews.. plus, $10/mo for 6GB as fast as your can pull.. Just depends on how you play the game I guess.. if you're dedicated at every day downloads.. that unlimited account sounds kinda nice.. especcially for those people who have the really crappy usenet servers on their end.. Not sure what RR's retention is at now.. but I'm pretty sure it's at 2 days or less, now.. Been having to renew my easynews more than once a month cause I'm not typically one of those every-day downloaders.. though, I've been getting better.. dont like popping off on easynews more than one a month like that.. heh

zanson · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 41

Onakra · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 7:44 am Post subject:

I'm not looking to switch to Randori, but more of an addon to my Newscene account. I still have the old account type (not available anymore); unlimited download with 2 connections per server and a 8 kb cap at $12,99 and I'm happy with that. Rentention is about 8 days in most groups and that's enough for me.

Luckily my ISP's server is ok too, but lately they have been dropping large volume groups. If I now want to get a game or DVD I have to do it at 4x 8kb/s which is not too fast... So I was looking to add a server which is not too expensive, no speed-cap and retention more than a day or 2. Randori seems ok for this purpose, but I haven't found people yet who actually have (or had) an account. Maybe I'll try it for a month to see how it is.

zanson · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 41

Have you checked out any of the news group server review sites? This one has a pretty decent list of servers: http://www.newsgroupservers.net/