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NewsDemon Coupons – 50% off monthly USENET accounts
March 1st, 2009
NewsDemon is offering a special coupon! 50% off!
Just for March 1st, 2009, we are offering a special coupon, 50% off our monthly USENET accounts. The coupon is good for the life of your account but the coupon can only be used on March 1st, 2009.
All you need to do to take advantage of the discount is use the following coupon when you sign up for a new account: marchfirst
Coupon applies only to new accounts and is good until you cancel your account.
What’s the deal with Usenet Newsgroups Retention?
January 1st, 2009
Recently, NewsDemon.com’s Usenet Newsgroups had made several retention upgrades. We had been waiting on these upgrades for some time now and we were happy to finally be able to pass the extra days along to our customers.
Now, we are getting customers who have seen that several of our competitors are following suit and increasing their retention above and beyond what we currently show. So, we thought we would clear the air about NewsDemon.com retention.
It is NewsDemon.com’s internal policy to NOT report retention increases until we are able to actually provide and verify these days of retention on our servers. Often, our retention numbers posted are only the amount of days available through use of article ids and exclude additional days that might be available in a group. This mostly occurs on some of the larger groups with over a billion articles.
With that in mind, we would like our customers to know we are currently showing slightly over 200 days of retention in most of our core groups we use for measurement. We will be updating the numbers on our website later this week. And although we do not choose to provide an actual number of days we are building up to, we will share that we do not intend to stop growing our retention in the near future. Building retention is a very costly and time consuming endeavor and we at NewsDemon.com hope you will understand our efforts to provide accurate information regarding our continuing upgrades on our Premium Usenet Access services.
From all of us at NewsDemon.com, we wish you a happy and prosperous 2009.
Cool article about saving the USENET.
October 10th, 2008
The article is a little aged, but its still a great read. Highly recommended!
Newsdemon.com Upgrades Data Center
September 23rd, 2008
Newsdemon.com will be upgrading all users currently using the following nntp addresses to our new data center:
· us-east.newsdemon.com
· us-secure.newsdemon.com
With this change, which will take place between midnight and 1am on September 24th, 2008, the Newsdemon.com US based data center will be better equipped with new equipment, better stability, increased retention and redundancy.New members will automatically be routed to these new servers. Existing customers will be notified before being automatically transferred over to the upgraded servers.
The new data center also represents a change in article numbers for each newsgroup. Only current users that have stored their headers in their newsreader will be affected and will have to re-subscribe to their newsgroups to retrieve the newly numbered headers. This represents the only change current users will experience.
All other changes are automatic and will not affect Newsdemon.com member’s configuration or any other user access. All members should immediately notice better stability and a higher quality of service in this release.
The new Newsdemon.com data center extends current capabilities and will be a positive change in the end user experience. Further details on the increased retention and redundancy will be updated here throughout and after the transition.At Newsdemon.com, we appreciate your patronage as we continue to demonstrate our dedication in providing our customers with superior service and support. Any inquiries, questions or concerns regarding this matter can be directed to our technical support team.
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Newsdemon welcomes Newsgroups customers from AOL and AT&T!
July 11th, 2008
Apparently, AT&T and Time Warner owned AOL have decided to eliminate free usenet access for their customers. Newsdemon would like to extend a welcome to the refugees of these ISPs and offer a 15% discount to all new Newsdemon subscribers from AT&T or AOL.
Simply use the coupon code twarner15 and receive a 15% lifetime discount on Newsdemon monthly accounts. This discount will be good as long as you remain a Newsdemon Newsgroups customer
Newsdemon Discounts Usenet for Time Warner, Verizon, Sprint
June 22nd, 2008
Newsdemon welcomes the Time Warner, Spring, and Verizon Usenet refugees with open arms! We will give a lifetime 15% discount to all incoming Time Warner, Sprint, and Verizon customers. Simply input the couponcode twarner15 in the ‘coupon code’ box on our join page and you will receive a lifetime 15% discount off all our regularly priced monthly accounts.
N.Y. Attorney General forces ISPs to curb Usenet access
June 10th, 2008
Three major internet service providers have all agreed to block customer access to newsgroups, according to the agreement that was announced yesterday by the New York attorney general’s office.
Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to dismantle usenet access to their users, either partially or entirely. Details on what each company will end up censoring in total has still yet to be announced.
Time Warner Cable has been the only company to go on the record currently to state that it will be shutting down ALL Newsgroups it controls on its network. Time Warner Cable has already been in the news recently as it announced a tentative release of a new rate plan which would charge users who went over a set download limit per month.
Sprint and Verizon have yet to state anything other than they would “limit access” to newsgroups on their networks to their customers. Verizon has also been a very big proponent of limiting general download usage of customers, as Sprint has been rumored to be in the works of creating a similar rate plan as Time Warner Cable has announced.
The incentive for these companies appear to be noble on the cover. However, with information regarding concerns on the usage of their networks many are speculating that this is drawn from an agenda to reduce traffic on there networks in order to gain higher returns. One of the top arguments is that the proposed incentive is to shut down thousands of legitimate newsgroups that are irrelevant in this case rather than just a few offending groups that would be questionable.
At Newsdemon, we hold open arms to all the refugees of these networks that are being left out in the cold by these ISPs. As an incentive, we’re offing 15% off all of our monthly rate plans for a limited time only for customers from Time Warner, Verizon and Sprint.
Simply use the discount coupon twarner15 on our join page to receive a discount for the life on your account.
Time Warner Cable drops Usenet
June 6th, 2008
According to DSLReports.com, Time Warner cable has decided to discontinue providing usenet access as part of their included services for customers.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Time-Warner-Cable-To-Stop-Offering-Newsgroup-Access-95030
Newsdemon welcomes the Time Warner refugees with open arms! We will give a 15% discount to all incoming Time Warner customers. Simply input the couponcode twarner15 in the ‘coupon code’ box on our join page and you will receive a 15% discount off all our regularly priced monthly accounts.
Newsdemon has added more support for Mac
June 3rd, 2008
We have had a few customers request a tutorial on how to setup a newsreader on their Mac. Here are two pages we created to help:
Newsdemon Hogwasher setup: http://www.newsdemon.com/hogwasher.php
Newsdemon Unison setup: http://www.newsdemon.com/unison.php
A gift for the science geeks…
June 2nd, 2008
This author remembers spending hours upon hours in science labs memorizing the periodic table of elements. I was browsing through one of the newsgroups the other day and I found a discussion about this chart. Its pretty cool….for science geeks like us.
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