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Been like a decade since I touched usenet but I do recall that requests were pretty common. Especially since the content expires. With a 5 year old torrent there's a decent chance you'll find a couple of seeders even on a public tracker and get it eventually, but with usenet that stuff does eventually rot away and you'll have to request a reup.
I mean usenet servers are running with insane retention... omicron hosts have 5648 day retention, other backbones are over 4500
Unless it gets taken down, it doesn't go away anymore... providers just keep retaining. I suppose that will end eventually... maybe some day the cost of storage will prohibit archiving 15 year old binary usenet posts.
Usenet retention has been pretty much infinite the last 15 years.