Giganews Archive

  • Giganews crosses the 400-day binary retention mark (but won’t stop there)

    Giganews crosses the 400-day binary retention mark (but won’t stop there)

    Six months ago, Giganews announced that it would expand its server capacity to 365 days of retention. It passed that barrier some time ago, and just yesterday reached the magical 400-day mark. In plain English, that means if someone posted Some File to alt.binaries.boneless back in July, 2008, you should be able to find it on Giganews' servers. And to think, back in my early days of Usenet use (2001ish), I was putting up with two days retention.

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  • Usenet deals abound for Verizon customers: Giganews, NewsDemon

    Usenet deals abound for Verizon customers: Giganews, NewsDemon

    Come September 30, Verizon will completely drop Usenet access. (It had already been limiting access for some time now.) To that end, a number of Usenet providers, including Giganews and Newsdemon, have special deals set up for Verizon users to make the hurting stop.

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  • Giganews gives 50 percent off for newly Usenet-less AT&T customers

    Giganews gives 50 percent off for newly Usenet-less AT&T customers

    Ladies and germs! If you're an AT&T Broadband customer you should know that your ISP is shutting off access to Usenet at the end of the month. Why? Yup, it's related to that whole smear campaign from last year. Some nonsense about illegal content that may or may not be there. Anyway, Giganews has a little sale for you guys: 50 percent off three months of the Diamond Plan and 20 percent off other Giganews plans.

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