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To add a newsgroup, please email support.'","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.usenetmax.com/"},"egress":{"terms":"Nothing published about speed, volume or retention; the only number on the site is the connection count","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.usenetmax.com/"},"interface":["nntp"],"interface_detail":"NNTP over TLS on port 563; no HTTP or object API exists for the download path, so a user drives it through SABnzbd, NZBGet or nzbdav","tooling":null,"chaining":"Would stack as a zero-cost secondary for recent, popular binaries if it is alive; it cannot be a primary, because three connections and a member-requested group list cannot cover a workload.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"3 connections free, up to 12 on a premium account","source":"https://www.usenetmax.com/how-to/"}],"limits_note":"The terms permit one free account per individual, household or IP address. The bundled indexer is ikbin, an open-source binary indexer whose own FAQ says it is 'a demonstration and testing site' and that 'content may be cleared out rather unexpectedly if a beta goes south'. The premium account price is not published on the pages read; whether a datacenter address is accepted is not published.","binding":"request-rate","binding_note":"Three simultaneous connections is the ceiling and it is published; no volume or retention figure exists to bind instead. Three connections will not saturate a line, so throughput, not volume, is what a 50 GiB month runs into.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"An email address: 'no credit card required, a password will be emailed to you'. The terms add that only one free account is permitted per individual, household or IP address.","country":null},"reliability_note":"A demo server attached to a demo indexer, with a group list that only covers what members ask for and a stated risk that content disappears when the beta misbehaves. On 2026-11-03 neither the website (an HTTP GET timed out) nor the NNTP port of news.usenetmax.com (a TCP connect timed out) answered, while DNS for both names resolves and a Wayback Machine copy of the home page dated 2026-06-27 shows the offer. Liveness is unconfirmed: the page text that reads today is an index copy.","confidence":"unverified","confidence_note":"The offer text was read from the live page body on 2026-10-23, but no HTTP status accompanied it and the direct fetch failed. 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