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DumpTruck Is A File Storage System With Roots In Usenet

If you're familiar with <a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/search/usenet">Usenet</a>, you'll be well aware that the newsreading platform is, well, not longer about newsreading. In fact, most Usenet provi

As Giganews Approaches 1,000 Days Of Retention, A Contest Brews

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/giganews1000.jpg" />Oh dear, another <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/usenet/">Usenet</a> post. Quickly now, as we don’t want to

Giganews' Retention Has Reached 900 Days

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/giganews900days.jpg" />Look at that: <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/giganews/">Giganews</a> now has 900 days of binary retention.

Mimo Usenet Browser: Now Available For Giganews' Diamond Members

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mimo1.jpg" /><a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/giganews/">Giganews</a>, the biggest <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/usenet/">

Giganews' Retention Now At 800 Days

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/g800.jpg" />How did I miss this? <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/giganews/">Giganews</a>, the biggest Usenet provider out there by

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

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

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/giganewsl.png" />Six months ago, Giganews announced that it would expand its server capacity to 365 days of retention. It passed that bar

Usenet deals abound for Verizon customers: Giganews, NewsDemon

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/gigavz.jpg" />Come September 30, Verizon will completely drop Usenet access. (It had already been limiting access for some time now.) To

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

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/giganews.jpg" /> Ladies and germs! If you're an AT&T Broadband customer you should know that your ISP is shutting off access to Usene

Giganews expanding retention to 365 days (plus limited time 50% off special pricing)

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/panic.jpg" />Heads up, Usenet users. We just got word that Giganews is in the process of upgrading its server retention capacity to 365 d

Help Key: How to download off Usenet like a champ

[photopress:usenethow.jpg,full,center] If and when the **AA have Usenet shut down after the piece appears, feel free to blame Biggs. He’s making me write it. I occasionally mention Usenet when t