Easynews^® has been providing netizens with premium, high-quality Usenet access for over 14 years.

Usenet is a global network older than the World Wide Web. Usenet is made of millions of people connected together through Usenet servers, such as Easynews.

People use Usenet for all types of public, digital communication. You can have text discussions with millions of individuals on thousands of topics.

Easynews knows that you have many Usenet servers to choose from when you connect to Usenet. However, Easynews has become the #1 Usenet server of choice among Usenet power-users. Here's why:

• Retention
  Easynews Plus and Big Gig Tiers
  • Easynews is currently spooling web retention to over 200 days! On September 16, 2008 our members web area will reach 200 days of Usenet data storage for these tiers. We currently have 192 days of web retention.
  Easynews Classic Tier
  
  • Easynews is currently spooling web retention to over 100 days! On July 27, 2008 our members web area will reach 100 days of Usenet data storage for this tier. We currently have 100 days of web retention.
• Support
  • Real-time, human support. Contact support via email, toll-free phone, web chat or our support newsgroup 24 hours a day.
• Price
  • Easynews Big Gig: $29.94 for 150 Gigabytes or 30 days, which ever comes first and up to 192 days of retention.
  • Easynews Plus: $14.97 for 30 Gigabytes or 30 days, which ever comes first and up to 192 days of retention.
  • Easynews Classic: $9.98 for 20 Gigabytes or 30 days, which ever comes first and up to 100 days of retention.
  • Roll-Over Gigs: Your unused bytes are rolled-over into your next billing cycle.
  • Loyalty: Receive additional Gigs per purchase for every year of your continued subscription.
    • 12 Gigabytes for our Big Gig account
    • 2 Gigabytes for our PLUS account
    • 1 Gigabyte for our Classic account
  • Free headers: Web indexes and NNTP headers are FREE!
  • NNTP Discounts: Downloads are discounted by 25% to account for encoding overhead.
  • Participate in our free gig offers and use up to 154 gigs on HTTP or 205.3 gigs on NNTP.
    • Earn 2 free gigs/month for every idle CPU.
    • Earn 2 free gigs/month for taking our members survey (survey results).
  • Pay as you go - You are never locked into a high monthly rate.
  • Payable by credit card, cash, web 900# or mail-in subscription.
  • Risk-free money back guarantee.
• Speed
  • Easynews is the ISP. We control our own servers and routers - right to the backbone.
  • Connected to 5 major backbones via directly connected, multiple GigE ports: AT&T, MCI, LLNW, Level 3 and Qwest.
  • Choose the fastest backbone for your downloads by using our Route Selector.
  • No rate limits. Most Easynews users are able to max out their connection, even full 10mbps ethernet.
  • Unlimited HTTP and NNTP connections.
• Privacy
  • Easynews takes your privacy seriously. We have one of the most aggressive privacy policies in the industry.
  • Easynews will never sell your information to a 3rd party.
  • Easynews will never contain pop-ups, pop-unders or other adware.
  • Included with your subscription: NNTPS - secure NNTP (over SSL).
  • Included with your subscription: HTTPS - secure HTTP (over SSL).
• Web Server
  • The Easynews web site contains every article posted to every Usenet newsgroup on our list in the last 192 days. There are more than 10 Million articles posted to Usenet every day.
  • Bulk downloads are made easy with our Zip Manager. Put all your files into one easy to download zip file.
  • NZB: Import NBZ files or Export any file posted to Usenet as an NBZ.
  • The web site also listens on port 81 to bypass broken web cache/proxy servers at your work or ISP.
• News Server
  • We carry over fifty-seven thousand newsgroups.
  • We also have a 4 star ClariNet feed.
  • If we do not carry a particular group, you can request that it be added.
  • The news server averages 98% binary completion.
  • Article Retention is up to 100 days for Classic users and up to 100 days for Plus users depending upon subscription plan.
  • NNTP headers are free.
  • Only one news server address, news.easynews.com. No need to juggle multiple news servers. Our front-end news servers intelligently handle multiple backend servers.
  • proxy.news.easynews.com listens on ports 22, 23, 53, 80, 110 and 443 to allow you to bypass firewalls or rate limits on port 119.
  • FREE SSL support through NNTPS - secure.news.easynews.com.
• Community
  • When you become a member of Easynews, you join a multi-national community of Internet users.
  • This community has donated over 25,000 years of CPU time to various distributed computing efforts on the Internet. Easynews currently supports the World Community Grid, which carries out research for the FightAIDS@Home and Human Proteome Folding projects. The Easynews Team at WCG.org is currently ranked as the #1 contributor to the project!
  • The easynews.support news group is a great resource for new Usenet users. Community members participate in the group daily.
  • As a member of the community, you have high-speed access to our mirrors area.
  • This community is also very quick to recommend Easynews to others. In fact, all of our business is word-of-mouth.

Bottom Line - We care about our users' Usenet experience above all else. If there is anything we can do to improve your experience, let us know! If you have any questions or comments, member or not, we'd be glad to hear from you.

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