tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192994312024-03-13T05:09:18.704+01:00A blog about the world of Usenet: free servers, news services, clients reviews.captwebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924697300548926153noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19299431.post-90641100887001645152007-01-11T15:24:00.000+01:002007-01-11T16:56:19.055+01:00

After introducing SSL Usenet access Giganews has recently announced an improved support for NNTP over SSL protocol: you can now establish 256 bit SSL encrypted Usenet connections to Giganews, using port 563 as well as 443. Port 563 is the default port for encrypted Usenet traffic (NNTPS protocol), while 443 is the default port for the encrypted web traffic (HTTPS). The ability to connect to your

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No!! Of course! So, don't waste your time and money on crap ebooks promising fast and easy money online: download NOW Mike Filsaime's Free Report called - "The Death of Internet Marketing".I will admit, like you may be feeling now, that I thought it was some hyped up offer to get me to join for free and get some offer......Turns out I was wrong. Way wrong.The bottom line is, this report really

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Starting from October 28th Giganews have begun offering SSL encrypted Usenet access with all its plans. All existing users may upgrade their accounts for only $5 extra per month and are enabled to use encrypted access to the Usenet. SSL enabled plans offer 10 bonus simultaneous connections giving you a total of 20 simultaneous connections to your Giganews Usenet access. Customers with high speed

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Today Giganews announced that in the next few days it will increase the retention for single and multi-part binary newsgroups up to 90 days. Currently the binaries retention period is of 70 days and it will reach the 90 days limit on a day by day basis, as new articles start to fill the additional storage. More info on the press release.

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Yottanews free server's users have experienced various connection issues during the past few days. The service was mainly down unreachable due to server maintenance, but yesterday the Yottanews status page reported that all the free servers were replaced with new hardware. But if you then have tried to connect using your old free account, you had certainly noticed that nothing had changed.

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Quick link today from A Copyfighter's Musings blog. In his post GUBA and the MPAA's Usenet suits, Derek Slater writes about his suspect that MPAA's recent Usenet suits are meant as a warning shot across the bow of companies like Guba.Guba and other similar companies charge users for indexing and browsing Usenet images and videos through a web based interface. The point is that if this type of

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The Yottanews free server seems to be up and running.I waited some days before writing this post about this NNTP server status, because it has gone up and down repeatedly in the last months (read my previous posts here and here)After a week of use I think that the issues with the server are over and it can be used normally. The Yottanews status page reports that:More free servers are now online

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There is much clamor on internet about the last MPAA moves against P2P sites.Last week the popular file sharing server on eDonkey P2P network Razorback2 was shut down by Swiss and Belgian police and yesterday the MPAA announced that it had filedseven lawsuits in federal courts across thecountry against highly trafficked Torrent, eDonkey and Newsgroup websites that areresponsible for facilitating

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A post in Radioactive Yak Blog revealed two new features recently added to Google Groups, the Google Usenet browsing interface: posts rating and users profiles.The header of each post was modified in order to show the post average rating (if any) as well as the numbers of votes received. Near each post's author there is also a link to a profile page, showing the searchable list of all author's

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Some days ago, a message was posted in all netscape.public.mozilla.* hierarchy newsgroups by Mozilla Corporation System Administrator Dave Miller. In this post the author explains that the long planned migration from netscape.public.mozilla.* to just mozilla.* hierarchy has finally come.According to Miller post:It should be no secret these days that the Mozilla Foundation and its related projects

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Today GUBA announced the immediate availability of more than 20,000 videos in Sony Playstation Portable Format. GUBA, a multimedia search service of Usenet videos, offers to its subscribers the ability to browse and download thousands of videos and more general multimedia content, retrieved from Usenet newsgroups. These videos are automatically optimized for Apple iPod/iTunes format, Flash and

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According to this news, the Australian ISP Iternode has begun a public beta test of its new premium Usenet feed, allowing its customers to retrieve files and discussion with fewer missing parts. This service was started to provide a better Usenet access within Australia, avoiding the purchase of expensive accounts with US Usenet services.According to the news:Internode is attempting to tackle

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Yesterday GUBA, the Usenet provider specialized in binaries and multimedia content, has announced the ability for GUBA subscribers to receive RSS (Really Simple Syndication) newsfeeds, which summarize new video content that has been posted to Usenet in virtual real-time.According to the company press release:This free enhancement to GUBA allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds with keywords

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Although the status page still states that "The free server is offline until after the memory upgrades", Yottanews free server is now up and running. The newsgroups I'm subscribed to appear full of messages and many multipart messages appears complete too. I hope that the problems that affected the Usenet provider are over and this valuable free server could be used again.

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The Yottanews Saga continues.As discussed in alt.free.newsservers newsgroup, some of the connection problems of the whole Yottanews servers came simply from the domain expiration due to 31/12/2005! The domain name is now active, as shown by a whois query:Registrar: INTERCOSMOS MEDIA GROUP, INC. D/B/A DIRECTNIC.COMStatus: REGISTRAR-LOCK Dates: Created 31-dec-2001 Updated

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If you try to connect to Yottanews free Usenet Server, you'll receive a Host Name not found error. Trying to check the status of the server through the status page you may notice that the whole yottanews.com domain is unreachable: there is no route to host. Is this a DNS problem or the Usenet provider has some really severe problem? More news to come.

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Have you ever looked for a program for testing your newsgroup server? If you have a list of free news servers and you'd like to test them quickly, you had to manually configure your News reader client each time. Now there is a small and simple program for Windows that performs quick and effective tests of any NNTP compliant News Server: Simple Little Usenet Test (SLUT).This piece of software is

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After a long downtime period the Yottanews Free News Server is back online. The news is highlighted in the status page of the Yottanews site. This is really an unexpected Christmas gift for all the free subscribers that were waiting so long for this good free server to come back online.The free server was shutted down around the 5th of November, when Yottanews decided to upgrade the News Server

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Are you a Usenet fan? Are you a Palm addicted? If you answered yes to both questions, then there is the rigth software for you: New Yanoff .According to the software description:New Yanoff is SonLight Software's closed-source fork of the original Usenet (NNTP) newsreader client for Palm OS PDAs, GPL Yanoff. With New Yanoff, the premier portable newsreader™, you can read your

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Internet Soft Corporation recently released Newsgroup Commander Pro 8.3. According with the publisher's description: Newsgroup Commander Pro is the fastest way to find any information you're looking for in news group archives. The program allows the fastest messages downloading from selected newsgroups. Newsgroup Commander extracts information from newsgroups using multiple include/exclude

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Yahoo recently released the beta of it’s new Answers service site. This is a free service based on the Usenet concept of posting a question and receiving answers by other people. According Yahoo Answers help page:Yahoo! Answers offers an easy way to share facts, opinions, and personal experiences on any topic, from the serious to the irresistibly trivial. Get real answers from real people in an

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Hello! This is the first post of this new blog focused on the Usenet. Here you'll find information about news servers, newsgroups, free and paid services, usenet clients and... who knows!?I think that the first post is one of the most difficult, so I would start pointing to one clear definition of what usenet is, from the Wikipedia site.Usenet was born to organize and spread discussion groups all

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