Usenet Servers

Usenet Access (50895) - RESOLVED
This is an update to the previously reported problem affecting access to our Usenet servers. A copy of the original announcement can be seen here:- http://tinyurl.com/28wzt6 Service has been restored and customers should now be able to ...

Usenet Access (50895) - UPDATE
This is an update to the previously reported problem affecting access to our Usenet servers. A copy of the original announcement can be seen here:- http://tinyurl.com/2vgnup We are still experiencing problems that are preventing ...

Usenet Access (50908) - UPDATE
Customers connecting via the trial 'RIN' network, and those trying to use server authentication may still be experiencing difficulties connecting to the servers. We are continuing to investigate these issues and will provide a further ...

Newsleecher
Advanced Multiserver Support NewsLeecher has advanced support for leeching from multiple servers at the same time! An unlimited number of usenet servers can be used to download files at the same time! * Top Tuned yEnc Support Besides ...

Peer To Peer!
The earliest peer-to-peer network in widespread use were the Usenet news servers, which communicated with one another as peers, propagating Usenet news articles over the entire Usenet network, which particularly in the earlier days of ...

Open Question: Anyone have recommendations on newsgroup posting ...
I remember when there were tens of thousands of users at once. Now the IRC servers that are left are nearly empty. It's like a ghost town in there. And USENET is fading away, too. Why don't people discuss things on newsgroups anymore? ...

Usenet Access (50908) - UPDATE
This is an update to the previously reported problem preventing access to our news servers. A copy of the original announcement can be seen here:- http://usertools.plus.net/status/archive/1206982747.htm Unfortunately some customers are ...

devolving 10 years, internetz time.
Last week I covered Usenet, and while it was pretty interesting, it was pretty hard. Thats not to say I didn’t like it, but it got me thinking about all sorts of ways the internet used to be much more about. IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, ...

Spam blights e-mail 15 years on
Billions of spam e-mails are sent each day, blocking mail servers, slowing down networks, infecting people's computers with viruses, helping hijack machines and generally making the internet a painful experience for many. ...

Spam blights e-mail 15 years on
The term is thought to have been coined by Joel Furr, an administrator on the net discussion system Usenet, to refer to unsolicited bulk messages. More than 90% of all e-mail is spam, according to anti-spam body Spamhaus. ...