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ThunderNews Discount for Cox Customers
April 22, 2010Cox 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.
News Rover V15.0, Rev 1 Available in Member's Area
October 02, 2009S and H Software has released News Rover v15.0 to us. V15.0 is a major release focused on improving News Rover's speed decoding messages and reducing its load on your computer. 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 Announces 400 Days Retention
May 19, 2009ThunderNews.com is excited to announce binary retention is spooling to 400 days! This doubles our previous spooling capacity! Presently, our binary article retention has increased to 275 days with about 200 days of headers. At the present size of the Usenet feed and with projections for its size in the future, our retention will be growing to between 400 and 425 days by the end of 2009.
Our text article retention now reaches back over 1250 days.
We continue to invest in technology and infrastructure to bring the best Usenet has to offer to you, our customers. These service upgrades are brought to you without any additional cost for you. As always we appreciate your business.
TN Admin Team
ThunderNews Retention goes to 1,265 days
November 17, 2008ThunderNews is pleased to announce we have been able to backfeed text and discussion newsgroups and are now able to offer over 1,265 days text newsgroup retention on the Premium servers and 365 days text newsgroup retention on our Standard servers.
Further, our newsgroup article retention has passed 160 days in binary groups and continues to increase daily.
As always, we are happy to bring these increases in our news server newsgroup article retention to you with no increase in our pricing.
ThunderNews Announces New European SSL Usenet Server Launch
October 24, 2008ThunderNews 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.
ThunderNews is excited to announce that on October 1, 2008, we will bring our newest Usenet server farm online for our Premium and Premium SSL customers. The new server hardware is designed with multiple levels of redundancy, better load balancing, more connection capacity and room for increased article retention.
On October 1, we will move all of our traffic on the Premium US and Premium US SSL servers to the new server farm. The server names will remain the same.
This change will be transparent for most of our customers. However, there are two important changes that you need to make to assure uninterrupted service:
1) The connection port list is changing. The port list will now be the same for the US and the European servers. You should check your newsreader client software setup to confirm your client is using one of the ports below to connect.
If you use News Rover, you can check your connection setup on the News Rover 'Configure' menu, 'Server' tab.
us.thundernews.com on NNTP Port: 119, 443 or 8080
eu.thundernews.com on NNTP Port: 119, 443 or 8080
If you subscribe to Premium SSL, use this config info:
secure.us.thundernews.com on SSL Port: 563, 80 or 81
2) As part of the move, we are resynchronizing message ID's so they are the same across all farms. This will have no impact on you if you do not store message headers. If you subscribe to newsgroups and store message headers, you will need to clear your current headers and get a fresh list beginning October 1. Otherwise, you may receive 'Message not found' errors after the move. Click here for more details.
As always, we appreciate your business and look forward to serving your Usenet needs. Please contact us at our Support Desk if we can be of assistance.
ThunderNews Support Team
Discount for Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon and Sprint Customers
June 25, 2008ThunderNews 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, 2007ThunderNews 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.
ThunderNews is pleased to announce that we can now accept your payment by UK debit card. Through WorldPay, we can accept your Solo, Switch/Maestro, Visa Electron, Delta and JCB card.
Join ThunderNews.com today and pay with your UK Debit card!
ThunderNews is pleased to announce that we have added WorldPay as a new payment option. You can now join ThunderNews and securely pay for your new account through WorldPay. The addition of WorldPay allows us to accept payments by your Solo, Switch/Maestro, Visa Electron, Delta, and JCB cards.
You are not required to have a WorldPay account to set up a payment to ThunderNews. If you choose the WorldPay option during the ThunderNews join process, you will be forwarded to WorldPay to complete the payment details. WorldPay will send you a confirmation e-mail with your 'FuturePay' information.
We Now Offer 3, 6 & 12 Month Term Accounts
February 19, 2006ThunderNews now offers accounts with 6 month terms. These accounts work just like our regular monthly accounts, but are offered at a discount. Many of you asked for longer term accounts and we listened!
You can now join with a 6 month account at the 15 GB/Month, 30 GB/Month, 150 GB/Month 5 GB/Day and Unlimited /Month account levels as well as various 3 and 12 months accounts as well.
If you would like to upgrade your current account to a longer term account just contact our Support Team and they will be happy to assist.
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.
