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Text Group Downsizing Discussion
The Big 8 is considering downsizing 198 text groups that they perceive as not being used. Please reply back to them in news.announce.newgroups, news.groups.proposals, or news.groups if you believe that...
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Announcing Our Member Rewards Program
Ready to earn a little extra cash? Good, because that’s exactly what our Member Rewards Program is designed to help you do. Starting today our customers can begin earning credits toward the...
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New Block Pricing & 33% Off Sale!
We’re excited to announce our new, lower priced block usenet accounts. We’ve dropped the price on every block account by at least 20%. We’ve also created 2 new block account options, a 250 GB level and...
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NewsgroupDirect Reaches 1000 Days of Retention
Today, we are pleased to announce that NewsgroupDirect has passed the 1000 day retention threshold. It was just a few years ago that 24 days of retention seemed like so much. 1000 days of retention...
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Usenet Block Blowout 35% Off Sale!
For the next 3 days you can get your usenet block access for 35% off! All block accounts, from our starter 25 GB block to our ultimate 1 TB block, are on sale. The sale runs from 12 PM Friday,...
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Retention is Now Up To 1350 Days
We just wanted to provide a quick update on our retention statistics. Today we passed the 1350 days mark for binary retention… that’s about 3.7 YEARS. Hooray for technology!
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Binary Retention Reaches 1400 Days
We are proud to announce that NewsgroupDirect has reached a staggering 1,400 days of binary retention. Our goal is to provide customers with the highest quality of service and we continue to push...
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Usenet Retention Reaches 4 Years
Toni Blay via Compfight Break out the champagne! NewsgroupDirect is proud to announce that our usenet retention just reached another milestone. We have no surpassed 4 YEARS of retention. Maybe we...
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New NGD Member Reward: Discounted VPN Access from Ghost Path VPN
We’ve got a really cool new reward for the best customers in usenet. Today we’re announcing that NewsgroupDirect has partnered with Ghost Path to offer discounted VPN access to NGD customers. NGD...
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The Best Newsreader Applications Available Right Now
If you’re a usenet user, of course you want to have all your feeds (and reads) in one place. That’s why we’ve rounded up some of the best newsreader applications available right now. Newsleecher is...
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Block Accounts are Now Shareable!
Big news for block usenet users. NewsgroupDirect block accounts are now shareable. You are free to share your block accounts with your friends and family, however you see fit. This has been our most...
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Exciting Usenet Infrastructure Updates
We’ve been working hard this year on several behind-the-scenes updates that will improve the usenet experience for all NGD customers. We’ve added additional capacity, a new server location, and...
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2,000 Days of Usenet Retention
Today we officially hit the milestone of offering 2,000 days of binary usenet retention. 10 years ago, when NewsgroupDirect was just getting started, the industry standard for retention was 12-24 days....
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Heartbleed Update
This is just a quick update related to the Heartbleed bug that was revealed recently. All NewsgroupDirect servers were fully patched within 3 days of Heartbleed’s announcement. For those who may not...
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T-shirts! Get Your T-shirts!
We were doing a little spring cleaning around the office today when we found an extra box of NewsgroupDirect t-shirts. So we’re giving them away. How To Get A T-Shirt There are two ways to enter. You...
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NewsgroupDirect Turns 10!
NewsgroupDirect opened for business in May 2004. The last 10 years have been an incredible experience for the entire NGD team. We’ve seen a lot of change in our industry. We’ve seen competitors come...
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How We Work at NewsgroupDirect
As part of #NGD10 we’ve decided to do something that we’ve been wanting to do for quite some time. We’re giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the tools that we use everyday. These are the tools, apps...
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IMPORTANT: NewsgroupDirect Security Breach
There has been a recent data breach at NewsgroupDirect. This is an ongoing investigation and things may change, but as of now we believe that someone unauthorized was able to gain access to our systems...
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23rd Anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s Announcement of the WWW on Usenet
Today is an important date in the history of both usenet and the world-wide-web. On August 6, 1991 Tim Berners-Lee (while working at CERN in Switzerland) announced his idea for the WorldWideWeb on the...
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New Milestone for Usenet Retention
Today we reached a new milestone! Our binary retention has crossed the 2,200 day mark. It’s always exciting when we reach nice round numbers like 2,000 days or 2,200 days. It’s a good time to reflect...
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