Latest Happenings from the Usenet Newsgroups World

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
24

NewsgroupDirect Helps Your Find Your Roots

One of most best kept secrets of online network resources is the Alexandrian Library of genealogy newsgroups. Everything from African to Icelandic blood lines are discussed and described in some form in the newsgroup postings. We’re talking 500 megabytes a day of information being exchanged and more...

Jan
07

Unison 2.0 Now Available – Mac users

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...

Sep
23

Great Groups: Lego builders

Most of us remember Legos as the little plastic blocks that turned our younger siblings into human wrecking balls.  Need a trip back in time?  Watch this video.  I’ll wait for you. Ciara destroys lego Strike a chord?  It certainly does with me.  While I may not play with Legos anymore, there’s...

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...

Sep
09

Great Groups: Arcade game collectors

Remember the good old days?  Back then, you could head to the mall or the nearest skating rink, slide a few quarters into an arcade machine and play the classics as they were meant to be played – with pizza-greased hands, surrounded by all your friends. Arcades may be disappearing but their artifacts...

Sep
21

SSL Now Available in Europe!

The European SSL server is now available. This is a great advancement for the usenet community in Europe. Visit our Server Info page to see all of the details on how to connect.

May
17

Usenet Users Sharing Historical Song Statistics

Wired Blogs has an interesting article out about how usenet users are sharing a spreadsheet file called “The Whitburn Spreadsheets“. These spreadsheets contain historical data about songs all the way back to 1890. It’s worth a read to see how the structures and lengths of individual...