Astraweb is a

Usenet Usenet (), a portmanteau of User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP, Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Elli ...

newsgroup A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are not only discussion groups or conversations, but also a repository to publish articles, start ...

service provider. Founded in 1997, Astraweb service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to

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. In addition, Astraweb offers 'block accounts' (pay-per-byte).

Evolution of retention time

Notably Astraweb was responsible for the huge increase of retention on almost all big Usenet services, which was triggered by their announcement to keep files for up to 270 days in December 2008. As of July 2013, retention time for files was up to 1800 days.http://www.news.astraweb.com/tools/stats.html Astraweb Statistics and in July 2014, retention time for files was up to 2150 days. Later in 2014, retention time was increased to 2278 days. As of 2021 the retention time has increase to 4000 days.

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