What is a Usenet Provider? Usenet Providers are companies that are in the business of offering access to the Usenet to commercial customers (often called resellers) and individual customers like you. There are many providers in the industry to choose from. We recommend Fastusenet.org as a providers that offer high quality, great completion, and outstanding [...]

Usenet Frequently Asked Questions Some Usenet newsgroups have what is known as a charter or F.A.Q. (Frequently Asked Questions). This file contains a list of rules for that newsgroup stating what types of posts are acceptable in the group. A group’s charter or FAQ is the written policy of either the group’s creator or of [...]

What Are Newsgroup Feeds? Newsgroup Feeds are just another way to name the articles that circulate in Usenet, the huge online community that contains files and discussions you can’t find elsewhere on the Internet. They are called feeds because the news servers that host Usenet are fed with those articles by many Usenet providers around [...]

Where to Find Usenet Games Besides all the other types of files and software you can discover in Usenet, you can also find a multitude of different computer games (both Mac and PC) posted in various groups in Usenet. Some popular newsgroups for games are: alt.binaries.games, a;t.games, and others. There are also more specialized game [...]

Newsgroup Retention Time Newsgroups longevity in terms of Usenet is an interesting topic. How long a newsgroup may or may not survive in the Usenet environment is relative to many factors. Particular newsgroups need to be created, filled, and accepted by Usenet providers across the world in order to successfully survive. After this has happened, [...]

Some tips on writing newsgroup proposals. What’s Newsgroup Proposal? A newsgroup proposal is a submission made to add a newsgroup on the topic of your choice. A newsgroup proposal is also known as a Request for Discussion (RFD). It is important to get directly to the point and to be persuasive in your proposal. What [...]

What are Newsgroup Hierarchies All newsgroups in Usenet are divided into several major categories by the first word or level in the newsgroup names. The so-called “Big 8,” most common first-level categories include: comp.* (computer discussions), rec.* (recreational interests), soc.* (social discussions), talk.*, sci.* (scientific topics), misc.* (miscellaneous topics), news.* (news discussions), and humanities.* (humanities [...]

Best Usenet Provider Award UsenetReviewz.com have awarded Fast Usenet with the Best New Usenet Provider 2011 Award. To read the full review visit their site at www.usenetreviewz.com. We have included a short summary of the award article below. “We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate FastUsenet.org on winning the “Best New Usenet Provider” [...]

Unwritten Rules of Posting to Newsgroups There are certain unwritten rules about newsgroup posting that we would like to write here and make you aware of so you can learn how to post responsibly. Many users (especially new Usenet users) do not know what is appropriate when posting and what isn’t. That is why they [...]

What are Newsfeeds on Usenet? Newsfeeds are the information files that are uploaded and downloaded from the newsgroup community. Usenet is a bulletin board type system of linked computers that contain thousands of newsgroups, which are discussion areas organized by subject matter. Accessing Usenet Newsgroup Feeds In order to access the Newsfeeds on Usenet, you [...]