Newsgroup completion is something that is very important when choosing a newsgroup service. Some say the article completion rate is the single most important criteria for selecting a news service, 90% + completion rates are a must have feature. Completion is something that is only related to multi-part binary files. All binary files are broken [...]

A newsreader is a software application specifically designed to read articles from Usenet. Because of the way that information is posted to Usenet, it must be decoded and often combined from split files before it is useful to the user. This is where a good newsreader can be very useful. There are many newsgroup providers [...]

What is a Newsgroup Discussion? Newsgroup discussions are conversations between two of more people that go on in the Usenet community that is comprised of hundreds of thousands of newsgroups dedicated to different areas of interest. Most often, these discussions involve many users around the world and what makes them so valuable are the different [...]

Fast Usenet carries over 120,000 newsgroups and when you type “autos” in our web gateway’s search field you’ll get a huge selection of auto newsgroups to choose from. “Alt”, “Rec”, and “News” are the types of autos newsgroups that we carry. In these types of newsgroups you will find all sorts of discussion and binary [...]

Most of the people who have ever used Usenet know how important it might be to hide one’s true identity in Usenet. Privacy is something that is becoming more and more important everyday on the Internet. There are always new stories of people involved in identity theft crimes, where their information is stolen and used [...]

The term ‘newsgroup archives’ refers to a huge collection of newsgroups and their articles. At Fast Usenet, we have the largest newsgroup archive collection you’ll ever come across. We carry over 120,000 newsgroups and this number grows every day and if we don’t have what you’re looking for, we can definitely have it added to [...]

Usenet is one of the fastest growing and evolving parts of the Internet. As a worldwide forum for sharing ideas, opinions and even binary files, it contains billions of posts from millions of different users. As the content expands further, it is essential to develop intelligent search engines which can help people find what they [...]

There are many specialized newsgroups in Usenet. Most of them are in English a few of them are in other languages. The NL newsgroups are an example of these groups, they are newsgroups in Dutch. The Dutch language is very distinct and that is why they are given their own hierarchy for newsgroups. The NL [...]

In this brief article I am going to attempt to explain what Newsgroups are, how the network they are based on works and why everyone on the internet should participate. Introduction Think of a Newsgroup as a category of discussion, where people with similar interests get together to discuss a specific topic. The variety of [...]

Discuss Your Favorite Movies on Usenet So where do you go if you want to find out information and reviews about a specific movie?? You would probably go to Yahoo or MSN and click on “Entertainment.” Well, that is one easy way to find very basic, brief info about current movies. But how about if [...]