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Easynews Maintenance Announcement 2010-05-04 08:00:00 UTC
Date: 2010-05-04 08:00:00 UTC 2010-05-04 04:00:00 EDT 2010-05-04 01:00:00 MST 2010-05-04 01:00:00 PDT We will be performing scheduled maintenance on several switches in our facility. The maintenance is scheduled for a 3 hour duration. Service degradation is expected during this 3 hour window. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please let us know. - Uncle Jesse -
Easynews Maintenance Announcement for 2010-05-01 03:00:00 UTC
Date/Time: 2010-05-01 03:00:00 UTC 2010-04-30 23:00:00 EDT 2010-04-30 20:00:00 MST 2010-03-30 20:00:00 PDT One of our peers will performing maintenance on several circuits. The expected duration is 6 hours. Although no major impact on services is expected, NNTP services may be degraded during this maintenance window. If you have any questions, please let us know. - Uncle Jesse -
Unlimited NNTP!
Hello everyone, Easynews is evaluating a brand new offering: unlimited NNTP! During the evaluation, unlimited NNTP will be offered to our customers as an add-on to existing accounts, for a low price of $9.95! Unlimited NNTP means no more byte counting. Download Usenet articles to your heart's content! Please note that this does not apply to web downloads. Only a limited number of customers will be immediately eligible for the unlimited add-on. For all the details and to sign up, navigate to: https://www.easynews.com/edit/queue.phtml Thanks for using Easynews and please feel free to contact us 24/7 with any questions/concerns/ideas related to this or anything else. -- Rick Easynews Admin
Upcoming Maintenance Announcement on 2010-03-23
At 2010-03-23 08:00, we will be performing corrective maintenance on several of our core network switches. The maintenance being performed may necessitate a reboot or other brief service interruptions. During the maintenance, customers will notice service interruption or degradation for approximately 15-30 minutes. -- Thank you, Espada Easynews Support
Upcoming Maintenance Announcement on 2010-03-16
On 2010-03-16 at 10:00:00 (UTC) We will be performing corrective maintenance on one of our core routers. The maintenance being performed will require a reboot of this core router. During the reboot, customers will notice service degradation for approximately 30 minutes. -- Boon Easynews Support Team
Maintenance for 1/21/2010
We will be moving a router within the same rack to free up space. We do not expect any customer impact or issues at all. We are informing you just in case. Only web services may be impacted. UTC: 2010-01-21 16:00 MST: 2010-01-21 09:00 Thanks, Lionel Richie Easynews Support Team
Maintenance in Amsterdam
We will be performing maintenance in Amsterdam starting UTC: 2009-12-22 06:00. The expected duration is 2 hours. We do not expect any impact, however, it is possible there will be erratic traffic as the network stabilizes. Thanks, Lionel Richie Easynews Support Team
Maintenance in Amsterdam
We will be performing maintenance in Amsterdam starting at UTC: 2009-12-22 06:00. The expected duration is 2 hours. We do not expect any impact, however, it is possible there will be erratic traffic as the network stabilizes. Thanks, Lionel Richie Easynews Support Team
Black Friday Special!!
Hello Everyone, While Friday the 27th of November is being experienced somewhere on Earth we will be offering all account upgrades for 50% of their normal price! This means if you're currently an Easynews Classic user you can upgrade to a Plus account for $2.49 versus the normal price of $4.99. If you're a Classic user looking to try out BigGig, that's available for an additional $9.98, instead of $19.99. If you decide to stay with the plan, future billings will be at the normal price. If you've ever lusted for the increased retention available to the higher accounts or the increased gig allotment, now is your chance to experience it! :-) This handy web page will show you what time it is in various places around the world: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html?sort=2 Thanks for using Easynews and feel free to contact us at anytime, 24/7, with any questions related to this or anything else. We're always here. -Russ
Privacy Policy Re-Certification with TrustE
Hello Everyone, We are happy to announce that our site has been re-certified by TrustE, the leading Internet privacy policy seal provider. Easynews has always been committed to the privacy of its members and this latest certification confirms our continued desire to lead in the field of privacy, and ultimately, to provide a service where members can feel more than comfortable that their private data will never be mishandled. Easynews is absolutely dedicated to keeping your information safe. The full announcement along with the re-certified policy can be found at: http://www.easynews.com/recertified_privacy_policy.html Thanks! -Russ
Scheduled Maintenance Announcement
An upstream network provider will be performing two separate maintenance events in our European facility during the following times: Start: 2009-11-18 21:00 UTC Duration: 8 hours Start: 2009-11-19 23:00 UTC Duration: 9 hours We expect significant interruptions of service in Europe during these times and/or service degradation on our European services only. Impacts may last for a short period or could extend through the entire maintenance window. We are doing everything on our end to minimize the impact to our service. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. - Uncle Jesse -
Easynews Email Addresses (everyone.net)
Hello Everyone, A few members have contacted us regarding the lack of ability to create new email accounts with our third party email provider, everyone.net. The reason for this is simply because we exhausted our quota of available accounts we were able to dole out. To remedy this *we are going to remove any account from Everyone.net that hasn't been accessed in the year of 2009.* I'll post a follow-up when it's complete but for those of you who have been waiting for a free @users.easynews.com email account this will be your chance to snag one! :-) Thanks! -Russ
Maintenance Announcement
Hello World! One of our third party vendors will be performing fiber work. It was communicated to not be service impacting maintenance. We will continue to monitor throughout the maintenance window. Please report any issue you may have during that time. Window Start Time: 2009-10-29 07:01:00 (UTC) Window End Time: 2009-10-29 11:00:00 (UTC) (For east coast subscribers subtract 5 hours, for west coast subtract 7 and so on). Please note, this is not slated to begin until October 29th, 2009. Window Duration: 3 hrs 59 min If you have any questions about this announcement, please feel free to contact us. We're here 24/7. http://support.easynews.com/ Best Regards, Christopher-John Easynews Support Team
New Home Page
Hey Guys, We have a new home page we pushed out today. Nothing revolutionary but we think it looks better. Not much changed in the way of links but please let us know if you find something not working the way you expect it to. Thanks! -Russ
Want Faster Download Speeds? Try Easyboost!
Everyone, We are happy to formally launch a new feature to the site, a free service for new and existing members we are calling Easyboost. Although we cannot define exactly how it works, what we can say is that by making use of advanced web acceleration technologies we are able to dramatically increase the download speeds of many users. Those of you with connections with higher latency will experience more significant improvements than those with minor latency, but there are significant gains to be had across the board. To find out which method works best for you, please visit our Easyboost test page at: http://www.easynews.com/easyboost/ To find the answers to some commonly asked Easyboost questions visit: http://www.easynews.com/easyboost/faq.html We're obviously always interested in our members' feedback so please do not hesitate to contact us with positive or negative feedback. We are here 24/7/365 via phone, chat, or email (http://support.easynews.com). Thanks for using Easynews! -Russ
System Announcement - Free trials and email billing alerts
This information has been included in other posts that may not have as much visibility, so this announcement serves to bring some new updates to the forefront. Easynews is now capable of alerting customers to billing issues more efficiently. Easynews will still alert customers of billing issues when logging in at http://www.easynews.com. The change is that customers will also get Easynews system messages about these same alerts. These messages can be viewed at http://members.easynews.com/messages.html (via the web) and at easynews.messages (via NNTP). If you have email alerts turned on in your account preferences, you will also receive an email to the account on file regarding these Easynews system messages. Easynews also has a new trial account policy. It can be viewed at http://www.easynews.com/trial/. Remember, for every referral, people can get rewards!!! Check out: http://www.easynews.com/referafriend. If you have any questions, please let us know. - Uncle Jesse -