Latest Happenings from the Usenet Newsgroups World
Feb
01
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...
February 01, 2010 in Tutorials
Jan
24
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...
January 24, 2010 in Fun Stuff
Jan
07
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...
January 07, 2010 in News
Sep
23
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...
September 23, 2009 in Fun Stuff
Sep
14
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...
September 14, 2009 in News
Sep
09
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...
September 09, 2009 in Fun Stuff
Sep
21
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.
September 21, 2008 in News
May
17
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...
May 17, 2008 in Fun Stuff