More people are posting files in an obfuscated format that isn't supported in versions of Newsbin prior to the current 6.80 beta. If you are downloading from NZB files that have obfuscated posts in them, you should upgrade to the latest beta which is 6.80 Beta 13
The beta is very stable and is close to production release. If you have any questions, please contact us through the Newsbin Support Form.
We've had several reports from Astraweb users who download post headers that they are getting "Bogus MaxSpool" errors. This is due to their servers resetting article counts on posts. The procedure you need to follow in order to resolve this issue is in our Troubleshooting FAQ.
Remember, only people downloading headers from Astraweb are impacted by this. If you are downloading using our Usenet Search Service or via NZB files, you are not effected.
If you need more help, feel free to contact us through the Newsbin Support Form.
We've discovered that Microsoft is blocking email from us for hotmail and probably for their other email addresses like live.com, outlook.com, and msn.com. If you have tried to contact us and never heard back, this would be the reason why. To receive email from us, you need to explicitly specify newsbin.com as a Safe Sender. To do this from the outlook web interface, click the gear icon in the upper right of the page and select Options. Then click "Safe senders" in the left sidebar and add newsbin.com using the displayed form.
Another option is to use an alternative non-Microsoft email account if one is available to you.
We have messages in to them to try to get us removed from whatever blacklist we are on. We apologize for any inconveniences.
Special pricing for UsenetServer available through December 1, 2017.
We have completed the planned server maintenance. If you notice anything wonky, please let us know through our Support Page.
We will be performing some server maintenance between 6:00am and 7:00am EST on Saturday November 4. Various systems will be down for a few minutes at a time but not all at once. The Newsbin Forums may have up to 5 minute downtime.
If it is after 7:00am EST and you find something isn't working right, please let us know.
This version corrects a bug with the duplicate detection mechanism and includes some performance improvements for header processing. You can get the details from the Beta Download Page - click the "Changes in this Version" tab to view the latest changes. The download link is available on that page as well.
If you find any issues, you can either post to the Newsbin Forums or contact us through our Support Form.
If you are running Sonarr with Newsbin, you'll want to upgrade to this version. It works much better with Sonarr now. There are also separate search history lists for Subject searches versus Poster searches. You can get the details from the Beta Download Page - click the "Changes in this Version" tab to view the latest changes. The download link is available on that page as well.
If you find any issues, you can either post to the Newsbin Forums or contact us through our Support Form.
We've been testing Beta 7 for a few weeks now and it is pretty stable. The changes are too numerous to list here but if you are running any older beta release, you should upgrade to this one. You can get the details from the Beta Download Page - click the "Changes in this Version" tab to view the latest changes. The download link is available on that page as well.
If you find any issues, you can either post to the Newsbin Forums or contact us through our Support Form.
We are ready for more people to give the latest beta a go. Usenet is in a constant state of flux with posters acquiring new posting
styles and 6.80 Beta 5 has more logic to be able to handle more of these posting styles better. It also has some bug fixes that
have been identified along the way. You can get the details from the Beta Download Page -
click the "Change History" tab to view the latest changes.
If you find any issues, you can either post to the Newsbin Forums or contact us through our Support Form.
If you are using the Newsbin Internet Search service to search Usenet from within Newsbin, you will now need to be running Newsbin
version 6.60 or higher. The upgrade is free, just download the installer from the Newsbin Download Page and run it.
In most cases your settings will be preserved unless you are upgrading from a really old version.
The reason is that we are updating our servers to adhere to the latest security recommendations, which are to not support SSLv2 and SSLv3 anymore.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us through our Support Form.
Effective today, you can no longer register versions of Newsbin prior to 6.60 from within Newsbin. There is a workaround,
you can install the latest version of Newsbin (which is now 6.73), register it,
then downgrade to your preferred version. You can grab the installer for older versions from the Newsbin Archives. Run the installer after successfully registering a 6.60+ version and it will retain the registration. This will work for
all 5.x and 6.x versions. Unfortunately, version 4.x is too old and we can no longer support its registration mechanism.
The reason is that we are updating our servers to adhere to the latest security recommendations, which are to not support SSLv2 and SSLv3 anymore.
As a heads up, this change will be coming to the Search server as well so if you are a Newsbin
Internet Search subscriber, you'll need to run at least version 6.60. We always recommend that you run the latest production release, all
upgrades are free for life.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us through our Support Form.
We have begun beta testing for 6.80. We are actually at Beta 2 now, as Beta 1 was limited to a smaller audience. Version 6.80 has some major download engine improvements and addresses some issues found in the 6.7x series. You can get the details from the Beta Download Page - click the "Change History" tab to view the changes since 6.73. If you find any issues, you can either post to the Newsbin Forums or contact us through our Support Form.
We are getting frequent reports of header download failures that are turning out to be caused by a software conflict with some security software.
If you are having this issue, you'll see this message in the Logging tab:
ERROR Server:My_Server NNTPServer: Compressed Headers - Timeout Waiting for Server to send Data Error: WSARecv Socket Error Code: 10060 A connection attempt failed...
There are two solutions:
We are always available for help through our Support Form.
Several popular newsgroups on Usenet are getting spammed so hard it is causing performance problems in Newsbin for some users. If you are
a subscriber to our Usenet Search Service or download from NZB files then you are not impacted by this.
To help resolve performance issues, we have released Newsbin Version 6.73 Release Candidate 2 that allows you to easily create a filter to prevent spam such as this from getting
into the header database. This can cause increased resource usage and delays loading headers for viewing.
Once you install the latest version, follow these instructions to install the filter.
We are always available for help through our Support Form.
If you do not download headers and instead use our Usenet Search Service or NZB files then you can disregard this MOTD
Several popular newsgroups have been flooded by posts that cannot be downloaded with Newsbin over the last few weeks. They are all from the same poster
and can be filtered out during header download which is more efficient than letting it get added to the database and then removing them later. Quade
posted instructions on the Newsbin Forums explaining how to do it.
We are always available for help through our Support Form.
