Recent ThunderNews Headlines

News Rover V17.1 Available in Member's Area

November 29, 2011

S and H Software has released News Rover v17.1 to us. V17 is a major release focused on improving News Rover's speed and filtering abilities. Click here to check out what's new.

To get the latest copy of News Rover, log in to your account and chose the link to 'Download News Rover' from the top 'Information' menu on the Member's pages.

ThunderNews Discount for Cox Customers

April 22, 2010

Cox Communications recently announced it plans to terminate operation of its own Usenet servers on June 30, 2010. ThunderNews is offering a permanent 20% discount on monthly term Usenet accounts for all customers of Cox communications. ThunderNews' Usenet servers offer access to a wider range of newsgroups and longer retention than Cox's current servers.

Simply enter discount code tn20tvs during the checkout to receive your permanent 20% discount.

Free Upgrade to Premium Servers

February 23, 2010

Do you use the server news.thundernews.com and are you receiving a 502 authentication error or having trouble connecting?

We announced in late January that beginning in February we would be upgrading all customers on the Standard news.thundernews.com servers to access our Premium servers for FREE as accounts renew during the month of February. This process started February 3 and will proceed through early March.

If you are having trouble connecting to the news.thundernews.com server, your account has probably already been moved to the Premium servers. You need to make a few adjustments to your newsreader software to connect. See this help page for details.
TN Support Team

ThunderNews Announces New European SSL Usenet Server Launch

October 24, 2008

ThunderNews is excited to announce that we have launched our much awaited European SSL Usenet servers. The new European SSL Usenet servers offer the same newsgroup selection and retention as our regular European news servers. ThunderNews customers who subscribe to the Premium SSL account type can access the new Usenet servers now by using the news server name secure.eu.thundernews.com and the same ports as you use to connect to the secure.us.thundernews.com server. Log in on the Member's pages for more details on connecting to the European SSL news servers.

If you do not have a Premium SSL account and want to upgrade your existing ThunderNews account to the Premium SSL level, please enter an upgrade request at the ThunderNews Help Desk and we will be happy to assist.

Discount for Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon and Sprint Customers

June 25, 2008

ThunderNews is pleased to offer customers of Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon and Sprint the opportunity to upgrade to premium Usenet access at a 20% permanent discount on the monthly plan of your choice. Replace their service with ours and get long rentetion, great completion rates, excellent support and the option of SSL encrypted connections.

Join Now! and use discount code tn20tvs

ThunderNews Offers 256 bit SSL NNTP Connections

September 01, 2007

ThunderNews is please to announce we now offer 256 bit SSL encrypted NNTP connections!

SSL encrypted NNTP connections offer another level of security and privacy allowing you to safeguard your computer's communications with our news server when browsing messages. With SSL connections, your Usenet communications are encrypted from your ISP, other network providers and any others attempting to monitor traffic.

You may open an account with secure SSL NNTP access by choosing our Premium SSL Server option on our SignUp page.

Free NewsReader Software

May 04, 2005

ThundersNews announces today that we now offer the News Rover usenet newsreader client for our customers. We are proud to offer the very popular News Rover software to our customers FREE!!!

News Rover is normally offered for sale at $29.95, but we offer it to our customers at no charge. We are confident that once you try our news servers, you will impressed with the fast speeds, long rentetion and great article completion rates.

News Rover is packed with great features that save you time and effort when surfing the Usenet. News Rover provides: automated downloads, download tracking, and viewers for several file formats. News Rover is adept at handling multipart messages.

Check out the full feature list at NewsRover.com.