said by Ravage_D :

I know people out there will argue that you have to pay for access to a Usenet service with decent retention -- but it's honestly not that expensive. You can go with Astraweb for just over $13 a month unlimited access.

Considering the heartache around torrents, how plagued they are with fake files/viruses and adware/banners associated with their indexing websites -- forget it.

Perhaps we're looking for different things or in different places.

said by Guspaz :

Usenet has poor selection, torrents have far more available content, including much that is not and will never be on usenet.