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.
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.
Newsrover Version 13.3 has been uploaded to our system. If you would like to download this copy, please download a copy from the following url:
http://www.newsdemon.com/nrsetup_v13_3_0.zip (zipped)
http://www.newsdemon.com/nrsetup_v13_3_0.exe (executable):
Here is a summary of recent changes. For more detailed information, see
www.NewsRover.com/whatsnew.htm
* Changed the Configure/Server screen so that it is now possible to have two
entries for the same news server. You can specify a server nickname to cause
the two entries to have different display names.
* Improved the error retry facility so that logon errors are retried as well
as download I/O errors.
* Improved the handling of arrow and Home/End keys in the search screens.
* Made a change so that the currently selected message is not changed when a
download of another message finishes.
* The up/down-arrow and page up/down keys can now be used to scroll through
the newsgroup subscription list.
* Fixed a bug that could cause News Rover to crash when pictures were deleted
while viewing them in the Slide Show viewer.
* Fixed a bug related to changing the Encrypted/Non-encrypted status of a
group that had a file attachment larger than 2GB.
* Fixed a bug that could cause News Rover to crash if the “Folders” item on
the menu for the File Attachments section was clicked when there were no
defined filing folders.
* Fixed a bug that could cause News Rover to crash if a file was launched
from the File Attachments section and the file attachments section was closed
and reopened while the file was being launched.
* Fixed a problem that could cause News Rover to crash if the Delete key was
held down to delete many messages while other messages were being downloaded
by the same group.
* Fixed a problem that could cause News Rover to crash if the message list
was refreshed while performing a Save-As or Move-To operation.
* Fixed a bug that could cause News Rover to hang in some conditions if the
up-arrow key was used to try to move above the top item in the message
display list.
* Fixed a bug that caused serious display problems when News Rover was run
with Vista 64 with SP1.
We have currently filled all our beta testing spots. We will likely reopen the beta testing next week. Check back for an update.
We are in the process of beta testing our new ssl function from our European server farm. We would like to get a few dozen European customers who are already subscribed to one of our “Premium Plans with 20 SSL Encrypted Connections”. If you are interested, please email us with your memberid and we will add you to the list. Please keep in mind this is a beta test, and we are only accepting a few dozen testers.
To add your name to the list, email us at: betatest@newsdemon.com
The Usenet Newsgroups Trivia contest appears to be a success. We have received over twenty correct answers for each of the first two questions. We are sure once the idea catches on, we will probably get even more people interested in joining the game and we will begin asking more difficult questions. The competitive aspect of the game will likely increase as people try to guess what time of day we will be posting the questions, so they can be the first to answer. We will try hard to accomodate all our global customers, not just posting questions during times where certain time zones have an advantage. We don’t want you losing sleep over this!
With that said, we would like to point out that we have been putting in a lot of hard work to generate useful Usenet and Newsgroups related content on the site. If you haven’t already been there, we recommend you try out our “What is Usenet” page. There are lots of helpful pages of information regarding the usenet, newsgroups, and how it all got started. We also try to answer some of the common questions our support department receives regarding “Usenet Rules”, etiquette, and just a general overview of how NNTP works. Many of our usenet trivia answers can be found in these pages. We have a whole section of our staff dedicated to creating these pages, so check back on these frequently, we are adding new pages every day. If you think we have left something out, or you disagree with our take on a certain process or term, please do not hesitate to inform us. We are not perfect, but we are trying! Oh wait! We ARE the perfect Usenet and Newsgroups Provider! (gotta keep the bosses happy!) :)