Hey gang, sorry for the long wait between releases. The summer TV season has been slow, but I have been super busy. Anyway, I won’t bore you with excuses 
So, I fixed a few annoyances in 0.7.0 locally, but have been a slacker and not uploaded it yet. Hopefully I will get that done tonight. The main fix I remember off the top of my head is that we do better validation of the dates returned by tvrage which were causing NZBivo crash.
As always, let me know how it’s working for you, if I don’t hear from you, I assume it’s working perfectly :-p
Hey gang, sorry for the long wait between releases. The summer TV season has been slow, but I have been super busy. Anyway, I won’t bore you with excuses
So, I fixed a few annoyances in 0.7.0 locally, but have been a slacker and not uploaded it yet. Hopefully I will get that done tonight. The main fix I remember off the top of my head is that we do better validation of the dates returned by tvrage which were causing NZBivo crash.
As always, let me know how it’s working for you, if I don’t hear from you, I assume it’s working perfectly :-p (0 comments)
Covered in this article:
- 240 Days Binary Retention Upgrade
- Custom Usernames Support
- PayPal Support
In July of last year, Giganews , Inc., the world’s foremost premium Usenet access provider, broke the Usenet retention record by offering 200 days in binary newsgroups. Today, Giganews announced that they have started the process to upgrade retention in binary newsgroups to 240 days. Giganews expects to have the upgrade complete during September 2008.
This continues Giganews’ efforts to improve the Giganews® Usenet offering, including support for custom usernames and the ability to pay for services using the popular PayPal® payment service.
http://www.giganews.com/news/article/custom-usernames.html
http://www.giganews.com/news/article/paypal.html
“Giganews prides itself on delivering the premium Usenet services our members expect. We enjoy implementing features that improve our members’ experience and we are excited about offering 240 days of retention across binary newsgroups,” commented David Vogelpohl, Vice President of Marketing at Giganews.
The storage infrastructure needed for this retention upgrade has been ordered and Giganews expects to have the upgrade complete during September 2008. After the storage infrastructure is in place, retention will grow from 200 days to 240 days.
Giganews’ new retention levels will be available across all binary newsgroups including single-part and multi-part binary newsgroups. It should also be noted that news reading software can be used to access Giganews’ full retention without the aid of message ID based files like NZBs; although these files will also work with the Giganews service.
In addition to this retention upgrade, Giganews is planning further service improvements for its Usenet access service by the end of the year.
Giganews is a trademark of Giganews, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners
Giganews, Inc., a leading provider of Usenet access services, announced today that they are now supporting the PayPal™ payment system for their service.
As the largest Usenet provider in the world, Giganews has an expansive base of international members who have varying requirements for purchasing things online. The decision to accept PayPal is designed to address these requirements for Giganews members across the globe.
In addition to expanded payment method support, Giganews has also internationalized its service by offering its website in eight different languages. The company hopes that accepting PayPal will make it even easier for members to subscribe to Giganews® Usenet services.
“PayPal support is one of our most requested features, and we are proud to accept PayPal for our members. The exciting thing about Usenet is that it allows people from all over the world to connect to each other. By supporting PayPal we hope to make premium Usenet more accessible for a global community.” announced Giganews.
Current Giganews members may select to pay using PayPal by logging into their Control Panel and selecting “Change Payment”. New Giganews members may choose to pay via PayPal when they sign up for service.
