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  • CrunchDeals: Two months of Usenet access for $1 per month to celebrate thirty years of Usenet

    CrunchDeals: Two months of Usenet access for $1 per month to celebrate thirty years of Usenet

    Newsdemon loves to love you, baby. They're offering two months of Usenet access for $2 starting right now and ending at 11:59 PST tomorrow. You can sign up here. In more interesting news, they've also unearthed the original memo from Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis about the foundation of Usenet. It begins:

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  • How to use RSS to automatically download anything from Usenet

    How to use RSS to automatically download anything from Usenet

    It’s the tree of life, and for no particular reason, either. As a corollary to Biggs’ “cable companies are doomed” article from earlier today, I thought I’d demonstrate how easy it is to accomplish what he was threatening. That is, live a happy and successful life without having to pay $100+ a month to Comcast, Time [...]

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  • CrunchDeals: Unlimited Usenet for $10.95

    CrunchDeals: Unlimited Usenet for $10.95

    This doesn’t look like it’s advertised yet - it’s not linked on the NewsDemon front page - but for a limited time you can get their unlimited plan with 20 connections for $10.95 a month. I’ve been pricing these deals for a few days now and this is on par or better than most I’ve seen. [...]

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