Latest Happenings from the Usenet Newsgroups World

Jul
08

New and Improved Free Trial

We’ve decided to make some changes to our free trial process. Our old free trial was for 14 days and 1 GB of usage. That system worked great, as it gave our users plenty of time to decide if our service was right for them, but the 1 GB usage limit caused a lot of customers to leave their free trial...

Jul
02

Website Maintenance Tonight (UPDATED)

NewsgroupDirect.com will be unavailable tonight from 9 PM EST until 11 PM EST. We are going to be migrating the website to new servers and upgrading database configurations. The usenet servers will not be affected by this downtime and will be available normally. The NGD helpdesk will also still be available. Contact...

Jun
20

Announcing Our Partnership with StorageNinja

We are extremely excited to be able to offer a great new benefit to our users. NewsgroupDirect has partnered with StorageNinja, the online storage and backup service, to provide 30 GB of online storage for our new Unlimited account users. 30 GB of online storage and backup provides our users a secure,...

May
21

Group Spotlight: Newsgroups for Legal Questions

An interesting collection of newsgroups that we carry is the legal groups. These are text groups that should not be overlooked when looking for answers to legal questions. Law related newsgroups have users seeking for answers on some questions about law practices and other legal needs. Often, the discussions...

May
18

Newsgroup Retention Now at 600 Days!

We’re pleased to announce that our binary retention is now at 600 days! Our retention has been growing daily for months, and we?re continuing to set new records daily. Binary Retention Details: 600 Days available through message-id Over 300 Days available through header downloads Varies by Newsgroup Text...

Feb
15

50 Connections Now Available!

We’re excited to announce that we are now able to offer our customers 50 concurrent connections. NewsgroupDirect continues to invest in our infrastructure as a part of our commitment to having the best service in the industry. How Will This Affect You? We are providing these upgrades to our customers...

Feb
01

10 Ways to Get Effective Answers to Your Post

Have you ever posted a question or comment, only to find that you?re not getting any feedback what so ever? NewsgroupDirect has 10 great tips to get the most from your post and your question answered fast: Stick to the topic: Each day the internet is becoming saturated with useless information. Anyone...

Jan
29

Friday Twitter Giveaway!

It’s Friday, that means it’s time for some free stuff! This time we’re going to give away 2 FREE NewsgroupDirect Unlimited accounts… 1 to a random existing Twitter follower and 1 to a new follower. So what do you have to do to be eligible? If you’re not already a follower,...

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