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Welcome to the Newgroups.com blog. Here you will find all the latest news about Newsgroups.com - Service updates, messages to our members, recent Usenet news, and much more.

• 1,010+ Days Usenet Retention

  Retention is the amount of time a Usenet service retains the information on it's servers. With Newsgroups.com you get over 1,010+ days Usenet retention.
  
  So something that was posted lets say 500 days ago to Usenet is still avaliable for you to read or access.

• GrabIt Usenet Newsreader Tutorial

  We've created a tutorial on how to configure GrabIt with our Usenet system. GrabIt is a free newsreader developed and provided by Shemes.com.
  
  GrabIt has been in development for several years and has grown to become an outstanding newsreader with many features that were once only offered in paid newsreaders.

• 50 Usenet Connections

  Today, Newsgroups.com, announces the availability to our customers to increase the number of connections per account drastically. Although the increase of simultaneous connections will not always be necessary to achieve the maximum possible speeds, this upgrade will certainly increase customer experience for all users.

• What is Usenet Service?

  Usenet is a worldwide distributed bulletin board (forum) system. It consists of over 100,000 different “newsgroups” with names that are classified by subject (ex. Alt.binaries.linux). “Articles” or “messages” are “posted” to these newsgroups by people all around the world. These articles are then broadcast to other interconnected computer systems via a wide variety of Usenet networks.
  
  Some newsgroups are “moderated”; in these newsgroups, the articles are first sent to a moderator for approval before appearing in the newsgroup. Usenet is available on a wide variety of computer systems and networks, but the bulk of modern Usenet traffic is transported over either the Internet or UUCP. Usenet is a great source for information as it’s by far the most popular forum in the world and is used by millions of people everyday. So what does Newsgroups.com provide?
  
  Newsgroups.com is a tier 1 Usenet service provider capable of handling thousands of Usenet users. Newsgroups.com is connected to all major internet backbones in the world and can provide lightning fast Usenet access to anyone anywhere

• SSL Encrypted Usenet Access

  What is SSL Encrypted Usenet Access you ask?
  Well allow us to explain. SSL is short for secure socket layer. What SSL encrypted Usenet access does is it encrypts (scrambles) the data that leaves our server’s and your newsreader which supports SSL access such as GrabIt decrypts (unscrambles) the information once it reaches your computer.
  
  Why It's Important
  SSL access has been implemented by Newsgroups so your ISP (Internet service provider) isn’t able to monitor the information you are downloading. Many ISP’s began to limit connections to Usenet because of the high amount of bandwidth that was being transferred.
  
  With SSL 90% of the time your ISP won’t throttle your connection to Usenet because they can only see that you are using port 563 (default SSL port). This allows most users to experience the full speed benefits of Usenet service.