Global Search allows you to search for files in all newsgroups from one spot.
Ability for search to eliminate duplicates and combine binary sets which means when you ask for something, you get a link to a finished file and not a bunch of pieces of one.
Support
Easynews prides itself on its response time. Real-time, human support is available or you can contact support via email, toll-free phone, web chat or our support newsgroup 24 hours a day.
Price
$9.98 for 20 Gigabytes or 30 days, which ever comes first.
Roll-Over Gigs:: Your unused bytes are rolled-over into your next billing cycle.
Loyalty:: Receive 1 additional Gigabyte per purchase for every year of your continued subscription.
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 24 gigs on HTTP and 30 gigs on NNTP for $9.98.
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. They control their 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 their 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. 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.
Included with your subscription: NNTPS - secure NNTP
Included with your subscription: HTTPS - secure HTTP (over SSL).
Web Server
The Easynews web site contains every file posted to every Usenet newsgroup in the last 40 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.
News Server
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. Their 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.
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 the Easynews mirrors area.
This community is also very quick to recommend Easynews to others. In fact, all of their business is word-of-mouth.
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