Three of the companies are misleading , these companies are Easynews.com , Usenetserver.com , and Newshosting.com , all 3 companies are owned by Highwinds Corporation from Florida , US .... however the datacenter for easynews.com is in Phoenix, AZ as is usenetserver.com , newshosting is out of Atlanta but still a part of the same entity. These OLD sun machines that are run in the data centers are just horrible. They in house censor a bunch of the material , and really do not care about the end user. I would know as a former employee of Easynews (Highwinds Media Group) . Did you know that if you use newshosting.com you cannot call for any support on a service that gets "broken" for weeks at a time. only e-mail , however now that you know they are the same company , call easynews support and ask for support they are the same place. A SINGLE gentleman named BRAD censors and handles all the pulling requests that the MPAA and RIAA want . The only thing that easynews has going for it , is a unique PHP interface for the web (interaction with usenet) . They claim almost 200 days retention , but that is WEB retention. if you wish to use a client , you have to suffer with 15 days on their default server , and 88 day average on their "beta" servers. This is VERY misleading to the public.
believe it or not they are 3 out of "the big 8" , astraweb and usenext are subproviders that ultimately get their news from easynews.com. so the end user still suffers . Unless your NOT ON highwinds network , you will have issues. the Tornado software itself is Buggy at best. Tornado was origionally written in Tempe, AZ . and development of this has been shifted to Florida

When i say they are a BIG company I am not fibbing , from TNT.com streaming video to PPV for UFC these guys are everywhere , alot of the issues that folks have is solely because the news was peered from a highwinds network or worse off...... they use a highwinds subsidary such as those listed earlier in this post. JUST SAY NO TO HIGHWINDS!!!!!!!!!!!
smile. and have a great day.