Founded in 1995, Easynews is an interesting Usenet service which comes with a very unusual feature. It allows you to search, download and unpack newsgroup files direct from your favorite browser.
This has some important benefits. You don’t have to find, install and set up a news client, for instance. And you’re able to access the service from all your devices using exactly the same interface, making it much simpler and more convenient to use.
Although the web interface can’t match the best clients, it’s smarter than you might think. An Easy Assembler component makes it straightforward to download multi-part assemblies, for instance, automatically fetching, organizing and decompressing them for you.
This functionality doesn’t come cheap. The $9.98 (£8) a month Classic Plan has a web retention of only 365 days and a monthly transfer limit of 20GB. That compares poorly with UsenetServer, which gives you unlimited access for a monthly $7.95 (£6.36).
Upgrading to another plan will get you more power, but still at a steep price. The top-of-the-range Big Gig Plan gives you 150GB of web data transfer and 2,950 days retention via the web interface, unlimited data and 3,364 days retention via NNTP. You get up to 60 connections, a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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