[idop]

What's your provider? I'm on Giganews and while retention is pretty high, old files (>2 years) almost always are a problem for me. Something is missing, and there are not enough of pars to fix. This happened so much that I no longer bother with anything above 2 years.

[hackerboos]

DMCA take-down notices affect Usenet much more than Bittorrent.

The problem with Usenet is that it's centralized.

[hias]

Eweka + Newsoo block. But YMMV, I usually get older non-english stuff.