The NewsgroupDirect Blog » News http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog News and Happenings For NewsgroupDirect and the Usenet World Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:52:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 New and Improved Free Trial http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/07/08/new-and-improved-free-trial/ http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/07/08/new-and-improved-free-trial/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:52:22 +0000 ngdblog http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/?p=285 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 quicker than they anticipated. To improve that and to insure that we’re giving our customers as much information about our service as possible we’ve decided to change the free trial terms to 7 days and 15 GB of usage. The increased usage should allow our newest users to see how fast and reliable our servers are as well as the quality of our retention and completion.

We hope that you enjoy this new and improved free trial process. We believe that it will benefit our newest customers greatly.

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The usenet servers will not be affected by this downtime and will be available normally. The NGD helpdesk will also still be available.

Contact our support team with any questions or concerns.

UPDATE: Maintenance has been rescheduled for 9AM – 11AM EST July 5.

]]> http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/07/02/website-maintenance-tonight/feed/ 0 Announcing Our Partnership with StorageNinja http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/06/20/announcing-our-partnership-with-storageninja/ http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/06/20/announcing-our-partnership-with-storageninja/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:31:51 +0000 ngdblog http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/?p=267 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, reliable way to backup their most critical files. It’s more important than ever to keep a backup of your critical files, and StorageNinja makes it easy. We recommend that you use your StorageNinja account to backup your personal documents and any other files that are critical to you.

We hope that you enjoy this great new benefit. NewsgroupDirect continues to innovate and provide the best benefits for our customers. We are passionate about providing our customers the best experience in usenet.

Details: StorageNinja will be automatically provided for any new Unlimited (monthly or yearly) accounts created on or after June 20, 2010. You will receive an email from StorageNinja with your account details after you register with NewsgroupDirect. At this time, only new Unlimited accounts will be given StorageNinja access. Any issues with your StorageNinja account should be directed to support.storageninja.com.

]]> http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/06/20/announcing-our-partnership-with-storageninja/feed/ 0 Newsgroup Retention Now at 600 Days! http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/05/18/newsgroup-retention-now-at-600-days/ http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/05/18/newsgroup-retention-now-at-600-days/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 00:02:14 +0000 Lucy http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/?p=227 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 Retention:
Approximately 1400 days
Varies by newsgroup

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How Will This Affect You?
We are providing these upgrades to our customers free of charge. So if your account previously had 20 connections you will now have 50 connections. If your account previously had 10 connections you will now have 20. The number of concurrent connections allowed determines the number of articles that you are allowed to fetch at a time. So, theoretically, having more connections will allow you to download more simultaneously, increasing your total throughput.

NewsgroupDirect, the Usenet Company, is America’s premier usenet provider, providing access to more than 100,000 usenet newsgroups.

]]> http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/02/15/50-connections-now-available/feed/ 0 NewsgroupDirect Haiti Relief Efforts http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/01/18/newsgroupdirect-haiti-relief-efforts/ http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/01/18/newsgroupdirect-haiti-relief-efforts/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:32:48 +0000 ngdblog http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/?p=170 In response to the tragedy in Haiti NewsgroupDirect will donate all of today’s (Monday 1/18) sales to the American Red Cross. If you have already been planning to make a purchase at NewsgroupDirect then today would be a good day to do that, so that we can maximize the relief that we are able to provide. We encourage all of our existing members to donate to the Red Cross.

Our hearts and thoughts go out to all of the families affected by this tragedy.

Helpful Links

]]> http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/01/18/newsgroupdirect-haiti-relief-efforts/feed/ 0 Unison 2.0 Now Available – Mac users http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/01/07/unison-2-0-now-available-mac-users/ http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/01/07/unison-2-0-now-available-mac-users/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:02:07 +0000 Lucy http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/?p=165 The new version of Unison, our newsreader of choice for Mac users, is here!!!

Unison 2.0 offers now a native support for NZB searching within the application (via binsearch.info and others). It also automatically takes care of finding missing parts, PAR recovery, and RAR unpacking.

Others Unison’s new features:

  1. Redesign interface: all-in-one view,
  2. New group directory,
  3. Improved message reading with a thread view and thread lines,

and much much more.

?Unison 2 makes it easy to read, look, listen, and download.?

Get it at Panic site

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Happy New Year!

We at NewsgroupDirect would like to thank all of our customers for a wonderful 2009. We look forward to an even better 2010. Thank you to all. May 2010 be prosperous for you and your loved ones.

]]> http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2010/01/01/happy-new-year/feed/ 0 Happy Holidays from NewsgroupDirect http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2009/12/24/happy-holidays-from-newsgroupdirect/ http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2009/12/24/happy-holidays-from-newsgroupdirect/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:00:20 +0000 ngdblog http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/?p=158 Happy Holidays from NewsgroupDirect

Happy Holidays from NewsgroupDirect

The team at NewsgroupDirect would like to everyone a very Merry Christmas. Christmas is a time for family, so enjoy spending quality time with your family and loved ones.

]]> http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2009/12/24/happy-holidays-from-newsgroupdirect/feed/ 0 New Feature: Block Purchases Through WorldPay http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2009/12/23/new-feature-block-purchases-through-worldpay/ http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2009/12/23/new-feature-block-purchases-through-worldpay/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:40:52 +0000 ngdblog http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/?p=155 We’ve got an exciting new feature to announce. We are pleased to now offer the ability for our block account customers paying with WorldPay to be able to purchase new blocks at any time. Credit card block accounts have been able to do this for a while, but now it’s open to everyone.

To purchase a new block, just login to your account on our website. Click on the “Add Block” button on the right-hand side of the screen and choose how many GB you want to purchase.

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