Easynews^® has been providing netizens with premium, high-quality Usenet access for over 11 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:

• Support
  • Real-time, human support. Contact support via email, toll-free phone, web chat or our support newsgroup 24 hours a day.
• Price
  • Easynews Plus: $14.97 for 30 Gigabytes or 30 days, which ever comes first and over 100 days of retention.
  • Easynews Classic: $9.98 for 20 Gigabytes or 30 days, which ever comes first and up to 50 days of retention.
  • Roll-Over Gigs: Your unused bytes are rolled-over into your next billing cycle.
  • Loyalty: Receive 1 additional Gigabyte (2 Gigabytes for our PLUS account) 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 our free gig offers and use up to 24 gigs on HTTP and 30 gigs on NNTP for $9.98 or for PLUS accounts, 34 gigs on HTTP and 40 gigs on NNTP for 14.97.
    • 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
  • 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 our 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
  • We have a full feed with all groups.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• 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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