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The schema has no nntp token, so the array says unknown.","tooling":"any NNTP client","chaining":"Its value for a user is the bundled access: every plan advertises \"Supernews Access, ViperNews Access, Usenet.Farm Access\", so one $9 month reaches three backbones that each want their own account elsewhere.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"unlimited on subscriptions; blocks 50 GB to 2000 GB, non-expiring","source":"https://www.newsgroupdirect.com/"},{"kind":"request-rate","value":"100 connections","source":"https://www.newsgroupdirect.com/"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"5,915+ days binary","source":"https://www.newsgroupdirect.com/"}],"limits_note":"","binding":"none","binding_note":"The monthly unlimited plan has no byte counter and 100 connections; at 1 TiB/month nothing in the vocabulary fails. 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