- Free allowance
- "Try Our 3 Day Trial" on the newsgroup page, whose title reads "3 Day Free Trial, Sign up today!".
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | "Try Our 3 Day Trial" on the newsgroup page, whose title reads "3 Day Free Trial, Sign up today!". The same page advertises "50% off your first month of Supernews - that's just $5.99 to get started", against a regular "$11.99/MO" on the home page. unit unlimited; metered on wall-clock; The trial is 3 days with no byte counter: "We do not limit how much Usenet you can access. Unlimited means Unlimited." |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-ip-shaping unlimited speed, capped only by a user's line; 30 SSL connections source
- retention-clamped 5+ years binary, 13+ years text source
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| Binding | none During the three days nothing in the vocabulary fails: there is no byte counter and no speed throttle. After the trial the $11.99/month plan is still unlimited, so the binding constraint at 1 TiB/month is a user's own line, not the provider. |
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| Identity | card The signup page at /signup/ renders the validation text of a card form: "Please provide valid card number", "Please provide valid card expiration", "Please provide valid card cvv", plus name, address, city, state and ZIP, and the footer says "Payments by GoCardless". A payment method is therefore captured before the trial starts. |
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| Egress | No traffic meter is published: unlimited access and unlimited speed during the trial, 30 SSL connections. The only published charge is the $5.99 first month that follows the trial. free allowance: 3 days, unlimited volume, at a user's line speed |
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| Per-object cap | No per-object cap is published. The unit of retrieval is a Usenet article, roughly 750 KB by convention. |
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| Retention | "5+ years Binary and 13+ years text" in the page description; the body says "5+ years Binary and 13+ years text retention". (1825 days) |
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| Interface | unknown NNTP over SSL (30 connections). The schema has no nntp token, so the array says unknown. |
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| Tooling | any NNTP client; the vendor ships no downloader |
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| Reliability | The trial converts to $11.99/month unless cancelled; no suspension or throttle report was read. |
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| Notes | Repeatability: no vendor sentence on trial repetition was found; /terms/ answered 404. The card gate plus GoCardless makes a second signup a second payment relationship in practice, which is stated as the mechanism and not as a vendor rule. Abandonment: if the newsgroup page stops advertising the 3-day trial, the record becomes paid-only. |
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| Evidence note | documented Trial length and the unlimited terms are quoted from the vendor's own page today; the card gate is quoted from the vendor's signup form validation strings. No trial was executed. |
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