Usenet is older than the web.
Usenet is made up of milions of users all over the world connected via usenet servers such as Easynews. Easynews provides a web or newsreader interface to Usenet that is an alternative to peer to peer (P2P) services such as Limewire or Kazaa. Easynews is faster and more secure.
Easynews has been providing premium, high quality access to Usenet for 11 years. It is the only Usenet service I know of that provides a web interface which means you do not need anything special to access it. Internet Explorer or Firefox will do just fine. Easynews Guide was created to help you figure out Easynews and use Easynews to its fullest potential.
People use Usenet for a variety of reasons. You can take part in one of millions of text based discussions going on or download files such as movies, music, mp3s, pictures, and software.
There are many different Usenet servers you can connect to, but Easynews has become the Usenet server of choice for many reasons including:
- Real-time, human support. Contact support via email, toll-free phone, web chat, ICQ or our support newsgroup 24 hours a day. Contact Easy News Guide support for questions specific to the EasyNews turorials found here.
- Easynews is the ISP. They control their own servers and routers - right to the backbone.
- Connected to 5 major backbones via OC-12 or GigE: AT&T, Sprint, MCI, Global Crossing and Level 3.
- Choose the fastest backbone for your downloads by using Easynews' Route Selector.
- No rate limits. Most Easynews users are able to max out their connection, even full 10mbps ethernet.
- Unlimited HTTP and NNTP connections.
- Easynews takes your privacy seriously. They have one of the most aggressive privacy policies in the industry.
- Easynews does not monitor or log downloads.
- No identifying information is placed in your Usenet posts. Your posts are virtually anonymous with all X-Headers removed.
- Easynews will never sell your information to a 3rd party.
- Easynews will never contain pop-ups, pop-unders or other adware.
- NNTPS - secure NNTP, and HTTPS - secure HTTP (over SSL).
- The Easynews web site contains every file posted to every Usenet newsgroup in the last 25 days. That's over 8 million files with hundreds of thousands of new files every day.
- Bulk downloads are made easy with their Zip Manager. Put all your files into one easy to download zip file.
- The web site also listens on port 81 to bypass broken web cache/proxy servers at your work or ISP.
- $9.98 for 20 Gigabytes or 30 days, whichever comes first.
- NNTP downloads are discounted by 25% to account for encoding overhead and headers are free.
- Participate in Easynews free gig offers and use up to 14 gigs on HTTP and 18.6 gigs on NNTP.
- Earn 2 free gigs/month for every idle CPU.
- Earn 2 free gigs/month for taking Easynews' member's 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.
- Easynews has a full feed with all groups.
- Easynews also has a 4 star ClariNet feed.
- If Easynews does not carry a particular group, you can request that it be added.
- The news server averages 98% binary completion.
- Retention is one to two weeks in all binary groups, three or more in heavy binary groups. Text retention varies between a few weeks to over a year depending on the hierarchy.
- 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.
- When you become a member of Easynews, you join a multi-national community of Internet users.
- Currently, this community has donated over 9,800 years of CPU time to cancer research at Grid.org.
- 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 their business is word-of-mouth.
Usenet Web Interface
Easynews is not the only service providing a web interfact to the Usenet. Usenet Binaries does also (http://www.usenetbinaries.com), however its rates are 50% higher than Easynews's.
USENETBINARIES Don't even sign in
Don't even spend your time to sign at http://www.usenetbinaries.com Don't go there it's just a junk and porno and nothing to compare with easynews. Just my 2.
easynews rulez!
it's by far the best service i have ever tried. i can really recommend it if you are looking for high-speed downloads of files such as movies or programs. i just love the easynews global search tool! :)
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