Latest Happenings from the Usenet Newsgroups World

Sep
14

We’re upping our retention: How does 380 days sound?

Here at NewsgroupDirect, we’re always working to improve our service.  So when users say, “we want more retention”, we listen. We’ve increased our retention to 380 days for binaries and a whopping 1,650 days for text.  We hope that these increases, combined with our great pricing...

May
30

NewsgroupDirect Announces 400 Days Retention Plan

Continuing to up the ante, NewsgroupDirect is happy to announce that we are now spooling to 400 days retention. We currently are at about 300 days, so in about 3 months or so we’ll hit our goal of 400 days. We have about 200 days of retention available in headers, with another hundred days or so...

Jan
09

Retention Increased to 200 Days!

The NewsgroupDirect team is excited to announce that we are now at 200 days retention, and still growing. 200 days worth of retention is accessible through message id… so if you use nzb files or search using a newsreader with that capability then you’ll be able to fully utilize the retention....

Nov
24

Retention Upgrades – 160 Days

We’re excited to announce the latest retenion upgrades at NewsgroupDirect. Binary retention is now up to a whopping 160 days, with text retention up to 1250 days. This is the retention that is available by retrieving headers in your favorite newsreader. You may be able to get more days of retention...

Sep
20

Server Upgrades and Changes

We are happy to announce that we are migrating our Atlanta newsfarm to a new state-of-the-art newsfarm in Ashburn, VA. The new farm will provide our customers with longer retention, greater redundancy, and improved connectivity and speeds! Over the next 24 hours your newsreaders will automatically start...