Free NNTP Trial Service

[acidrain]

Hi Guys,

A guy I know has currently started setting up a new NNTP server and is looking for people to trial and test the system. Currently the server is hosted overseas but if there is enough interest, then it will be brought in SA.

He is only looking for people who will regularly use the service and willing to continue for the whole duration of the trial which will be about 4 months.

If you are interested in the trial you can PM me your email address and i'll forward onto him so he can send connection details.

And for those doubtful few, this is legit

EDIT: Will be only accepting between 10-20 guys for the trial

EDIT: Also would like some heavy downloaders and also guys with fast lines, maybe even 10mb

Cheers,

[acidrain]

Those who do use it, it would be appreciated to post as much feedback as you can like line speed, ISP and average speeds. Also any other feedback or comments are welcomed.

Thanks guys

[Anthro]

Im in, where do I sign
I do ALL my downloads through NNTP - hate Torrents

[Gielie Geelmielie]

I also in. Will PM you email address.

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I'm pretty happy with my current nntp provider, and its already paid for so will rather not waste your friends time. Hope this works out, would be great having a local option.

[Tinuva]

Sent a PM, will gladly test a free service :P

[PsyWulf]

Signed up,got deets,queued 6gig and turned off my other providers

Currently getting 270-310KB/s on my Afrihost uncapped

[Tinuva]

Now that I think about it, I can also test on a much faster connection than my home adsl...

[Soul Assassin]

Getting full speed on Mweb, I asked him the number of days retention, will report back as soon as I hear back.

[ChiLLs]

im in..

[savage]

Hi,

We don't work with retention. We use an intelligent algorithm for content expiration. An article which was accessed the longest time ago, will be deleted first only if, and when, the server requires disk space.

It's similar to the algorithms used by HTTP Proxy Servers for content expiration. We effectively took LFUDA (Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging) from Squid and implemented it on NNTP.

Glad you guys are getting decent speeds. We already picked up a few minor issues we will be addressing in the software.

[sjm]

PM Sent

[Anthro]

Didn't get my details !)

[savage]

You all should have a PM. Sorry, with the lack of an automated web site which still needs to be done, it's still a bit of a manual process All in due time.

[mrlgm007]

if there is any space i will test too please ...