Newshosting, the recognized leader in Usenet newsgroup access, today announced a new record upon reaching 1300 days of retention. This enhancement comes at no additional cost for all Newshosting customers. Yay! As the original “social network,” Usenet enables you to exchange ideas globally using text discussion groups. Newshosting’s 1300 days of retention and daily growth … Read more →
The Usenet was developed at the University of North Carolina in the year 1979 by students Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis and Steve Bellovin. It is a global network of commercial grade servers wherein members can post and download messages as well as files to more than 100,000 themed discussion groups called “newsgroups”. The so called “binary newsgroups” are … Read more →
Easynews offers a simple and straightforward solution for accessing literally petabytes of audio, video, image and text files posted to over 100,000 topic-specific groups (more specifically called “newsgroups”). Plans range from $9.98/month for 20 gigs of downloads to $29.94 for 150 gigs of downloads. They are also offering a 14 day/10 gig free trial (you … Read more →
Usenet is a very fast and secure way of downloading pretty much anything you like – but in order to get access, you need to purchase a plan from one of the usenet providers. Such a plan will often provide you with a certain amount of Gigabytes per month, connections, security etc. Right now, Newshosting.com … Read more →
As of September 30th, Verizon no longer provides free Usenet access to its customers and AT&T also stopped providing access as of July 15th. So if you’re based in the US and a customer of AT&T or Verizon you no longer have access to Usenet through your ISP, but don’t worry, there are alternatives… First, … Read more →