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The batman599 is using Newsdemon, not Eweka. The post has a tiny defect, (021/652) and (036/652) of .r66 didn't propagate from the Eweka posting server. Other than that it seems to be perfect. I don't have Newsdemon but used NZB Download Checker and found another Highwinds server, Newsgroupdirect, i...

I still use Xnews with an external NZB loader that's no longer availiable.

Pearl is only 30 days retention.

Blocknews.net

Did you ever solve this problem? If articles are missing I would hunt them down.

I always find out why a post has to be repaired, just out of curiosity.

Disturbing trend; might be my Scottish ancestry but I don't like to see such waste. Whatever issues are causing a 40% failure rate should be troubleshooted into oblivion.

You might want to download Quickpar (for Windows) so you can repair files manually, and separate from SABnzbd.

Astraweb and Highwinds cheap blocks.  The Highwinds reseller could be Newsgroupdirect.com

Giganews/Supernews don't sell block accounts.

If you are a totally nubular did you know that PAR2 files are used to repair missing pieces?

You might be able to tweak your setup to avoid even a 1% failure rate.  To  do that you'd have to know exactly why they fail.

No I didn't use the script, I used standalone programs and telnet. HEAD works better than STAT but all commands with msg-id for old articles are too slow on some Readnews servers. Do you have access to a Readnews server?  Some are slower for STAT, HEAD, BODY, ARTICLE, and more broken for STAT than o...

Servers reselling 'Readnews' often return inaccurate responses to the STAT command. - Sending STAT if GROUP is not sent first - '412 Not in a newsgroup'. - Nonsensical responses - '501 newsgroup'. - Inaccurate responses - '430 No such article' but the article can be retrieved. - Delayed responses - ...

To backup Easynews, NewsDemon or other Highwinds group providers, add block account servers from Astraweb, and a 'Readnews' provider such as Usenet-News.net or Blocknews.net . Tip:  When you see msg-id's of the form 'nnnnnnnnnn.nnnnn.nn@eu.news.astraweb.com' they were posted to Astraweb by a certain...

400+ days should not be a problem either, rascalli.

Newshosting completion is spotty 500-700 days old.  I suggest adding backup servers paid for by block.