Easynews, Inc is a HW Media Usenet/
newsgroup
A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are discussion groups and are not devoted to publishing news. Newsgroups are technically distinc ...
reseller. Founded in 1994, Easynews service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to
internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privat ...
s. Easynews offers Usenet access both through traditional
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
servers as well as a
web interface
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine fr ...
using a standard
web browser
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.
In 2006, Easynews was bought out by Highwinds Media, and their infrastructure merged. This move dramatically increased retention for all Easynews customers.
History
Easynews and HW Media continue to develop additional infrastructure to improve the web interface performance. This infrastructure includes: Zip Manager (2001), Global Search (2003), Auto Unrar (2005), Auto Par (2005), and Easyboost (2009). According to Sameh Ghane's TOP1000, Highwinds Media (the Usenet service which Easynews resells) is consistently within the top 10 of all Usenet servers. In 1997, Easynews implemented
SSL encryption as an optional service feature for all customers. On September 17, 2014, Easynews announced that the
binary retention time is 2224 days for NNTP and 1810 days for web accessed articles. NNTP retention is now rolling day for day, so as each day passes NNTP retention will grow by 1 day.
"Easynews Increases NNTP Usenet Retention " Usenet Junction News 09-17-2014
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References
External links
{{official website, https://easynews.com/
Usenet servers
Newsgroups
Internet service providers