A premium news service is an NNTP news server that you pay extra to access.
In return, the news service provider gives you a quality of service that, frankly,
blows away the free NNTP service that you get from your ISP.
Premium News Services focus on:
Performance: higher throughput and availability.
Completeness: having all the newsgroups and all the
posted messages for those groups.
Retention: having weeks of history for binary groups and
months of history for text groups.
If you haven't taken a Premium News Service for a test drive, you don't know what
you're missing. Consult our partner, SmR Usenet,
for some excellent reviews of both Premium and Free News Services.
Do You Use a Premium News Service?
We were pleasantly suprised at the number of users who subscribe to a Premium
News Service. It just shows that the Agent Community places a great
deal of value on the very best Usenet experience.
