More free gigs at easynews!

[commOdog]

Yay i get 5 free gigs a month!
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We are pleased to announce our Loyalty Gigs program to show our
appreciation of our customers!

As you probably have noticed, we have added a counter to our main
members' page that tells you how long you've been signed up with us
here at Easynews. This counter will be used to calculate how many
bonus gigs you will receive each time your account renews or is used
to buy more gigs. The bonus is simple. We give you an extra gigabyte
of usage to your gig allotment for each year you've been continuously
signed up.

For example, you can use the chart below to see how many extra gigs
you'll receive:

1.0 to 1.999999 years = 1GB bonus
2.0 to 2.999999 years = 2GB bonus
3.0 to 3.999999 years = 3GB bonus
4.0 to 4.999999 years = 4GB bonus
Etc.

Keep in mind, this bonus is given each and every time you're billed,
beginning on February 1st, 2007. This means either by account renewal
or by buying more gigs. Also, there is no limit to how many bonus gigs
you can receive.

We appreciate your business and hope you enjoy this new Easynews
feature. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please
contact our support department, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

Thanks again from all of us here at Easynews!

 

[htne]

I was with Easynews for many years, and I can only say good things about them. However, if you're the type who really wants MORE gigabytes, then you should go with an unlimited account at NewsHosting ($15 per month) or Giganews ($25 a month). Unlimited really does mean unlimited. I have on occasion downloaded well over 100 gigabytes per month from NewsHosting, with no problems.

 

[Tegeril]

I love Easynews.

 

[funnyfenix]

Originally posted by: htne
I was with Easynews for many years, and I can only say good things about them. However, if you're the type who really wants MORE gigabytes, then you should go with an unlimited account at NewsHosting ($15 per month) or Giganews ($25 a month). Unlimited really does mean unlimited. I have on occasion downloaded well over 100 gigabytes per month from NewsHosting, with no problems.

I had one month downloading over 2000GB using giganews unlimited account. NP at all

 

[zeroidea]

IMO, Astraweb's $10/mo unlimited plan is the best deal out there, unless you patiently bookmark things for a month, in order to go on a binge with UNS' $3 fill account.

 

[anthcla81]

Originally posted by: htne
I was with Easynews for many years, and I can only say good things about them. However, if you're the type who really wants MORE gigabytes, then you should go with an unlimited account at NewsHosting ($15 per month) or Giganews ($25 a month). Unlimited really does mean unlimited. I have on occasion downloaded well over 100 gigabytes per month from NewsHosting, with no problems.

newshosting is great, they have a $19.95/month plan now too thats i think 70 day retention, where the $14.95/month is 45-50day retention. I've had 300gig+ months with them, no problems at all, had a sub with them for well over a year..great company

 

[Crucial]

Easynews' web search tool keeps me there.

 

[LouPoir]

NewsHosting is excellent --

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: Crucial
Easynews' web search tool keeps me there.

++

 

[keeleysam]

I do about a terabyte a month on Newshosting, with not a single problem.

 

[tailes151]

Someone pm the details of these services. I'm a noob =(

 

[copernicii]

PM me too, just need to be pointed in the right direction....been trying to get into newgroups for the longest time.

 

[BenJeremy]

LOL....

You have downloaded 832.21 gigabytes (885,449,627,683 bytes web, 8,125,513,477 bytes nntp).
Your Gig Bank has 866.45 gigabytes (930,348,716,413 bytes).
You have 34.25 gigabytes (36,773,575,253 bytes) remaining (hide details).
Your next billing date is January 15.
You have been signed-up continuously since Sun Jun 10 00:00:00 MST 2001 (5.59411992 years).

I've got a lot of porn. Heh heh heh....

Honestly, I didn't notice. I guess I get 5GB bonus per cycle. I'm not sure what the rest means on the above statement. I recommend them to all of my friends, though, and I've written tools to make it easier to download stuff (including a FireFox extension that allows me to quickly multi-select files and send them to GetRight download manager)

 

[cranston]

Us3n3t is like a plague to me. When I have one of those $15/month all you can download plans, I seemingly spend every waking moment managing the computer that's doing the downloading. Frankly ... it's a pain.

Now, to concentrate my Us3n3ting, I use usenetserver's 3 day/$3 deal about once a month or so. Certainly, usenetserver has quirks, like the fact that often days worth of posts evaporate into the ether, but recently, they've gone to 55 days of retention, and it seems relatively OK. Plus, they have a search feature thru their webpage which lets you download nzb files, if there's something specific you're looking for. Then you don't necessarily have to plow thru a month worth of headers.

You can get some background and info here:

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/

C'ya
Cran

 

[commOdog]

Originally posted by: Crucial
Easynews' web search tool keeps me there.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[uo7]

Originally posted by: Crucial
Easynews' web search tool keeps me there.

That and zip manager

 

[funnyfenix]

giganews has a deal with Newsleecher (The best of the best). You use giganews service, you get newsleecher software free as well as search tool FREE. Retention of giganews is top notch. Over 90 days... The search of newsleecher is 120 days

 

[carlwu]

Originally posted by: cranston
Us3n3t is like a plague to me. When I have one of those $15/month all you can download plans, I seemingly spend every waking moment managing the computer that's doing the downloading. Frankly ... it's a pain.

Now, to concentrate my Us3n3ting, I use usenetserver's 3 day/$3 deal about once a month or so.

That's a good tactic. I feel the same way and ultimately gave usenet up. Temp deals every once and a while is a good option I didn't even think about. THX

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Is the easynews web search something like this site? http://beta.binaries.nl/ I must admit I don't like how popular newsgroups are getting. Too much attention being drawn to them could be bad.

 

[BladeVenom]

Originally posted by: funnyfenix

I had one month downloading over 2000GB using giganews unlimited account. NP at all

That's over 400 DVD's worth of downloads. I like porn as much as the next guy, but that might be overdoing it.

 

[Zendeath]

I had one month downloading over 2000GB using giganews unlimited account. NP at all

If I was to use that much bandwidth, my ISP would probably lock my account.

 

[BenJeremy]

Originally posted by: Antisocial Virge
Is the easynews web search something like this site? http://beta.binaries.nl/ I must admit I don't like how popular newsgroups are getting. Too much attention being drawn to them could be bad.

Meh, newsgroups have always been popular. The RIAA and MPAA have too much fun suing P2Pers to mess with usenet. Eventually, they'll figure out all the bad publicity hurts them far worse than the small percentage of "collectors" lurking the internets (who wouldn't pay for 99.9% of the stuff they download anyway, if they had to)

As for easynews' search page, it does global searches. If you are looking for MP3s, for example, you can check the "audio files" button, but I usually just put "mp3" along with the group name I'm looking for (although you may also check flac, wma, ogg, etc...). It's far more complete than the indexing sites.

I do use newzbin as an indexing site, which is handy for those binaries out there with cryptic titles or when posters use "733t-speak" in the titles to obscure what it is - since a search wouldn't ordinarily find it. Even handier, newzbin is $0.25/week to get access to nzb files which is nice for incomplete downloads via the NNTP side, since you can usually piece together incomplete files from the PAR2 files (when there are too many incompletes resulting in way too many missing files on the web side). Did that last bit make sense to you all? What I mean is that incomplete files result in NO FILES AT ALL on the web side, whereas on the NNTP side, you are sometimes able to download 90% of a file, and since PAR2 can also replace PORTIONS of a file, it's sometimes enough to cover the missing bits for a batch of incompletes where it wasn't enough to cover a batch of missing files in the same set of binaries.

 

[BudAshes]

OMG FIRST RULE OF USENET IS DONT TALK ABOUT USENET. That said i love my easynews.

 

[A5]

easynews + newzbin (just buy it in December when they have the half-price promotion, and then it's like $10 for a year of service) is what I do. I don't get enough stuff to justify and unlimited plan, so I like the lower cost ($10/month for 30 gigs) and gig rollover at easynews.

 

[cranston]

Us3n3t is impossible to explain. Even to people who've been using a computer for awhile. I've tried, and it can't be grokked. I don't even bother anymore. How did I learn about it, well, way back in '86 ...

The Law of Unintended Consequences seeks out the MPAA and RIAA. I bet they've noticed that every time they publicize a P2P *bust*, the news article explains how P2P works (like in a USless Today article), and they end up with 10 times the number of sharers than they had to start with.

The reaction of my nephew is illustrative -- "you mean you have to *pay* for newsgroups? Why do that?" and back to whatever he's P2Ping with he goes.

C'ya
Cran