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May 22nd, 2009

Due to a recent set of spammers who have been attempting to flood though Usenet Monster, if you want to post more than 50 messages a day, please contact us to be added to our posting 'whitelist'.

May 1st, 2009

We are pleased to announce that our retention has grown to 230 days and is continuing to grow!

March 13th, 2009

Please change your usenet server to log in to bignews.usenetmonster.com.  news.usenetmonster.com will be moving to bignews, which has different headers!  If you are still using news.usenetmonster.com or unlimited.usenetmonster.com, please purge your headers - and make the switch soon to bignews.

October 19th, 2008

Please change your usenet server to log in to bignews.usenetmonster.com.  You can use any of the ports listed in the FAQ, and on port 563 for SSL connectivity. PLEASE purge your headers when switching to bignews.usenetmonster.com !

October 19th, 2008

We migrated news.usenetmonster.com to a new server today and had some connection problems off and on for the last 24 hours (bignews.usenetmonster.com was working fine).  SSL was also down on news.usenetmonster.com for about 6 hours, and has been fixed.

July 15rd, 2008

We have lowered our pricing!  Unlimited accounts have been reduced to $13.95 from $19.95 and the higher-limit Rollover Gigs accounts have also been reduced in price.  All customers will automatically be billed at the new, lower rates on their monthly renewal date!

July 3rd, 2008

We have added a new set of servers with over 110 days of header retention (growing to 150 days) in the binaries groups!  All servers have over a year in text groups.  To use these servers, please log in with the same username/password to: bignews.usenetmonster.com

April 21rd, 2008

We now support NNTP via SSL on port 563 on all servers!


August 3rd, 2007

We had a disk failure that impacted new article headers coming in.  We are re-feeding from the backup feed copies and all article headers should be caught up by midnight.  Users accessing by NZB file should not have noticed any issues. 

June 28th, 2006

PayPal notified us that they are discontinuing access to Usenet providers.  We are contacting our PayPal-subscribed users via email to offer other options (credit card, cash/check).  Feel free to contact support@usenetmonster.com if you have any questions, or if you'd like to switch before receiving the email.

We will NOT be shutting off accounts of PayPal users until you're given a chance to work with us and switch payment methods.  We're also offering some bonsues for PayPal users who switch payment methods and retain their accounts.

Sorry about that, we would continue offering PayPal if we could.

June 20th

All systems have been up and running normally.

Regular account users: news.usenetmonster.com or news-new.usenetmonster.com

Unlimited account users: unlimited.usenetmonster.com or unlimited-new.usenetmonster.com

Any questions or suggestions can be sent to: support@usenetmonster.com

Thank you for your continued support!

Usenet Monster Team