Easynews

Easynews, Inc is a HW Media Usenet/newsgroup reseller. Founded in 1994, Easynews service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to internet service providers. Easynews currently offers service to over 1 million broadband users in 206 countries.^[1] Easynews offers Usenet access both through traditional Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) servers as well as a web interface using a standard web browser.

In 2006, Easynews was bought out by Highwinds Media, and their infrastructure merged. This move dramatically increased retention for all Easynews customers.

Infrastructure[]

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).^{[citation needed]}

Statistics[]

According to Sameh Ghane's TOP1000,^[2] Highwinds Media (the Usenet service which Easynews resells) is consistently within the top 10 of all Usenet servers.

SSL encryption[]

In 1997, Easynews implemented SSL encryption as an optional service feature for all customers.

Binary retention time[]

On September 17, 2014, Easynews announced that the binary retention time is 2224 days for NNTP and 1810 days for web accessed articles.^[3] NNTP retention is now rolling day for day, so as each day passes NNTP retention will grow by 1 day.^[4]

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External links[]

Official website