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Giganews’ first blog post!

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

newsgroups, usenet, blog
Giganews’ first blog post!
Welcome to the new Giganews Blog

Welcome to the Giganews blog. This is a corporate blog set up to keep our customers up to date on everything going on at Giganews. We’ll be posting on our own experiences using Giganews and other Usenet related technologies.

Take advantage of our RSS/Atom feeds and social bookmarking features to keep up to date and spread the word.

72 Comments Category: blog, newsgroups, usenet

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 8:05 pm

    Cool.. am i the first one to comment?

    Keep up the good work guys!

    Reply
  2. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 8:58 pm

    Cool! I am the second one!

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 8:59 pm

    2nd!

    YES, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND GREAT RETNETION!!

    Reply
  4. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 8:59 pm

    Yes, you are

    Eddy

    Reply
  5. LongJohn129 says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:01 pm

    Hey I am here too!

    Reply
  6. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:09 pm

    Bonne idée, bravo !

    Good idea, after years of painful surprises and desapointments, my quest for a reliable newshosting company has ended earlier this year. it’s like a dream come true. I used to have 3 or 4 days retention with my previous one… it was a nightmare. And now, with this blog, it’ll be probably very interesting and maybe even useful. I live in Switzerland, and usenet is still one of the least known part of the Internet. All the best for your blog !

    Jacques-Olivier, Geneva.

    Reply
  7. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:21 pm

    YAY SIXTH! LOL.

    -MAYHEM.

    Reply
  8. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:21 pm

    I love Giganews I am a poster to number 7!!!

    Reply
  9. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:21 pm

    Yes I am the 7th keep it up Giganews you are #1.

    Reply
  10. MAYHEM says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:21 pm

    sixth!

    Reply
  11. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:31 pm

    Hrm, it’s still saying only 1 comment on the initial page…..working as intended!

    Reply
  12. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:31 pm

    Nice work Giganews! Interested in seeing what you’ll be posting here…

    Reply
  13. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    Great GigaNews. Super service!!!

    Reply
  14. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    yeah, nice one giganews!!! looks like the mass mail out about this blog has slowed the site a little tho 🙂

    keep the retention and great download speeds coming!

    Reply
  15. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 9:54 pm

    Good stuff. Maybe we’ll do something like this on our site if it works out well.

    Reply
  16. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 10:03 pm

    I’d love to see a photo tour of the hardware giganews uses.

    Reply
  17. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 10:12 pm

    Great news. Can’t wait to hear some of the inner-workings of giganews.

    Reply
  18. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 10:18 pm

    ” Anonymous said…

    I’d love to see a photo tour of the hardware giganews uses.
    “

    Yes – or a factsheet of what youre using 🙂 how much, etc

    Reply
  19. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 10:21 pm

    I agree, your service and your customer service rock.

    I 2nd the photo tour idea!

    Reply
  20. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    I hope to see some inter-office hyjinks…perhaps a line up called, “The Ladies of Newsbin” or “Employee car of the Week”. I’d like to see GN instead of a lot of text.

    Reply
  21. Anonymous says

    September 27, 2006 at 10:28 pm

    yay giganews!

    the best servers and customer service in the industry!

    thanks guys.

    Reply
  22. misterorange says

    September 27, 2006 at 10:34 pm

    Awesome. I hope the blogging works out for you. I can only imagine the tales of Giganews employees 🙂

    Reply
  23. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:51 am

    This service is simply amazing, and is a steal at $25 a month. Thank you !!

    Reply
  24. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:52 am

    Your servers have far out performed any of the rivals that I’ve tried! Keep up the great work, it’ll certainly be interesting to hear some tales from your net admins, security guys, etc.. 🙂

    Reply
  25. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:52 am

    Great to see you joinging the blogging community, I have already added it to my bloglines.

    Reply
  26. Aaron says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:52 am

    god bless giganews.

    Reply
  27. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:52 am

    Wow, in at the start of history. Now thats really something

    Reply
  28. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:52 am

    Mark another hardware viewing request. I can’t imagine what your server farm looks like with the retention you guys are sporting.

    Here’s a quick question: to have the kind of retention you do, how many gigs of storage space does that require?

    Reply
  29. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:52 am

    Sweet, Giganews keeps on growing!
    First usenet company that tries to reach the community and its users? 🙂

    Reply
  30. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:53 am

    don’t tell people about usenet dammit!

    Reply
  31. Profit says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:53 am

    The world is a good place =)

    *waves to all the other bloggers in friendly manner

    Reply
  32. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:53 am

    Good idea: blogger.com = easy blog for every one with multi lingual interface 🙂

    Thanks for the quality of your service. I’m a very satisfied subscriber for a couple of years now. While the great reliability of your server was always close to 100%, the retention though a bit short in the beginning (+- 15d in binaries) is really ok now.

    Thank you and continue the good job !

    Reply
  33. Streamfire Photography says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:53 am

    I’d love to visit your data center with my desktop. What I would give to be able to jack in via fiber to your network and download till all my hard drives was stuffed full of data…

    Reply
  34. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:54 am

    Just another feature added to a service that I didn’t think could get any better. Keep up the great work guys.

    Reply
  35. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:54 am

    Congratulations Giganews! I admire companies that are willing to run company blogs. It shows you guys care about your customers and are willing to interact with them in as many ways as possible.

    Way to go!

    Reply
  36. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:54 am

    Awesome…. Giganews ROCKS!

    Reply
  37. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:54 am

    1 year subscriber and I wouldnt change hosts for the world! YOU GUYS ARE THE FREAKING BEST!!!!!! If you are a potential customer, you wont go wrong with these guys or *I* will give you your money back! lol!

    Reply
  38. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:54 am

    Love your service and your retention. Keep up the good work.

    Great Day

    Reply
  39. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:54 am

    Cool, am i 23rd?

    Reply
  40. BF says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:55 am

    Nice move Giganews. I would also like to see a users forum, where we all could share ideas about how to improve our Usenet experience and our experiences with the latest utilities and apps. Giganews rocks! Keep it up!!

    Reply
  41. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:55 am

    Keep up the good work guys- I lurve my Giganews!

    Reply
  42. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:55 am

    Damn good service – Keep up the good work.

    I’m curious does Gignews publish how large their current file storage system is?

    Reply
  43. silvaboy says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:55 am

    Great job guys. Gn rocks. Love the unlimited download plan

    Keep up the great work

    Reply
  44. Anonymous says

    September 28, 2006 at 12:55 am

    excellent service guys.
    retenetion that cant be beaten

    Reply
  45. Anon Emous says

    September 28, 2006 at 2:41 am

    Great Newsgroups site.. been using it for several years now. Thanks and please keep up the good work!

    pl

    Reply
  46. von says

    September 28, 2006 at 2:41 am

    Nice! Thanks for the service.

    Reply
  47. Stouty says

    September 28, 2006 at 2:41 am

    I have been a Giganews customer for over 5 years. They are wonderful, as during that time, they have provided continued improvement in retention, speed, and pricing packages. They continue to provide more value for less cost from year to year. The only problem with the unlimited plan, is that my ISP sent me a nasty letter because of the amount of “News” I was reading. Their message was all about the bandwith. I think anything over about 50 Gig a month is their trigger. Would be interested to hear what other isp’s do concerning large bandwith users. Rock On ! Giganews, and thanks for the great service.

    Reply
  48. Marbman says

    September 28, 2006 at 4:40 am

    So do we get a prize for being like the first 50 or so posters 🙂 ???

    -Marbman

    Reply
  49. D E Z says

    September 28, 2006 at 4:40 am

    I use the 25gig option. Everything I need is just a click away……..Thanks Giganews

    Reply
  50. King Tiger II says

    September 28, 2006 at 4:40 am

    Best retention and speed on internet.

    10/10

    🙂

    Reply
  51. skyy22 says

    September 28, 2006 at 4:40 am

    The best usenet service ever! I really enjoy how you keep increasing retention days and services. Giganews forver!

    Reply
  52. Benito Vergara says

    September 28, 2006 at 4:40 am

    But… what would you folks even blog about? Apologize for every time the server goes down? Explain the missing headers? That’s, like, never happened! =)

    Seriously though — I’ve been a customer since March 4, 2001, and I’ve never looked back since. You folks are amazing.

    Reply
  53. Jimerb says

    September 28, 2006 at 2:01 pm

    Whoo hoo! Giganews Rocks!

    Infrequently does a company provide such a good product that there’s nothing to complain about.

    Retention keeps growing – speed is awesome. Server is reliable. Premo.

    I’d love to see an indexing service someday with a notification option if what your looking for is posted.

    Keep up the great work!

    Reply
  54. bobbel66 says

    September 28, 2006 at 2:02 pm

    Great service but a bit expensive tu use the unlimited account IMHO 😉

    Reply
  55. Usenet Leech says

    September 28, 2006 at 2:02 pm

    Outstanding service, retention and completion. As long as Giganews is in business, I am a faithful customer!

    Reply
  56. mypetsstory says

    September 28, 2006 at 2:02 pm

    Good service! I use it a long time and very enjoy it.

    Reply
  57. samik says

    September 28, 2006 at 2:02 pm

    Here’s another happy customer. Keep up the good work!

    Reply
  58. Hueydude says

    September 28, 2006 at 2:02 pm

    Thanks for the great service!! Keep up the good work!!

    Reply
  59. JeRrYFaR says

    September 28, 2006 at 3:22 pm

    I guess I’m number 60.. this is cool.. can’t wait to see what you have to say in the future.. Keep up the good work!

    Reply
  60. swollen_thumbs says

    September 28, 2006 at 6:30 pm

    I would like to see an indexing of whats on the servers. Would make things a lot easier. Create a forum also.

    Reply
  61. Boris Pasternak says

    September 28, 2006 at 7:53 pm

    Nice work lads, adding this service for your customers.. Personally think that Giganews is one of the best, and this will continue with initiatives like this. Succes!!

    Reply
  62. stoneyjo says

    September 29, 2006 at 12:53 pm

    Reply for Stouty about ISPs and bandwidth – I had a problem with that and just did a search for ISPs and ended up with one that has 500Gb a month as its fair-use policy, as most of the unlimited(!) accounts seem to trigger at 100Gb and I objected to getting a nasty letter the first and only time I went over the limit! BTW this is in the UK. I’ve been with Giganews for over a year now and have never had any problems so am very happy with the service. Thank you Giganews.

    Reply
  63. BuBu says

    September 29, 2006 at 8:44 pm

    I guess the good folks at Giganews realize what the word ‘Unlimited’ means.

    With all the retention, I think they have a Master Plan, er, hidden agenda, to become the Inter-galactic Archivist’s!

    Having nothing to complain about the service, I’ll make a wish for faster header retrieval.

    Reply
  64. Anon Emous says

    October 2, 2006 at 1:59 pm

    Reply for Stouty about ISPs and bandwidth — my ISP (Rogers.com in Canada) limits downloads to 75 GB per month.. more than I ever use or need.

    They also offer a service for users to log on and check what the current month’s usage is at.. it helps heavy users manage their downloads.

    Reply
  65. Anonymous says

    October 10, 2006 at 6:23 pm

    Your service ranks second to none—tried others but always come back to the best—thanks!!!

    Reply
  66. Anonymous says

    November 21, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    Yea keep up the good work, you guys rock, and think you guys will give us a behind the scences look at what kind of hardware you guys are running, im sure most of us geeks would love to see what you need to host usenet at 1mb/s plus speeds.

    Reply
  67. Anonymous says

    December 4, 2006 at 3:04 pm

    Does anyone have a phone number or address to contact Giganews?

    Reply
  68. Giganews says

    December 4, 2006 at 3:24 pm

    Giganews only provides email based support. You can reach Giganews’ support team by emailing support – at – giganews.com

    Reply
  69. Anonymous says

    April 19, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    Good stuff. Maybe we’ll do something like this on our site if it works out well.

    Reply
  70. Anonymous says

    October 4, 2007 at 9:00 pm

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    Reply
  71. Unknown says

    August 7, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    How the hell do I get thes cowboys to answer my emails that I have sent in on the contacts webpage, I still havent had my username and password, it says up to an hour, i have been at work all day and still no pissing username and passeord. I want the damned thing now. I have paid for this service dammit.

    Reply
  72. Giganews says

    August 7, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    @wizard401

    Our support department is very quick at answering emails. It could be that your spam filter has filtered emails from Giganews. Check your spam folder and make sure to add giganews.com to the list of approved domains.

    If you’re using a Microsoft based email like MSN, live.com, or hotmail please use a different email address to communicate with Giganews.

    Microsoft has massive problems delivering emails and Microsoft based emails are no longer supported by Giganews.

    Hope this helps.

    Reply

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