Newsgroups?

im kinda stuck here, ive been looking and reading about newsgroups for a while. Like altnet etc. But im not to sure on where to find info about them. Anyone got any useful links at all?

thanks

trail

 

If you have verizon as your ISP, you will get the BEST newsgroups out there. THE BEST. And it's free if you have dsl from them.

or you can pay seperately

 

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edit:yes I probably have got completely the wrong end of the stick...but I don't really care...

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You mean usenet, check your ISP if they have their own newsserver, otherwise get a payserver (zillions of them).
Newsreaders are freely available (OLXpress, agent etc). Binary downloaders are quite handy for leeching

 

ok, im on ntl... ive got the newsgroups set up.

Whats the best binary downloader? im using newsbinpro atm. it seems ok.

trail

 

Yah have been using NewsBinPRO for more than 5 years! However i switched to Newsleecher lately, it supports .NZB a little easier than Newsbinpro.

 

NewsBinPRO is terrible.

NewsPro is very powerful, but terrible user interface

Newsleecher is quite good, most of the bugs are out of it now.

I use Plus.net and they have binary groups with crummy retention, i then back that up with a "pay" subscription from a company a mate works for, so i don't pay full price

 

Take a look here http://www.slyck.com/ng.php , it's a good starters guide to Newsgroups.

I also must highly recommend the www.Newzbin.com indexing service, save you a bunch of time downloading the headers and searching through them.

 

newzbin.com is a goodsend for piracy, so i shant recomend their highly effecient service.

QuickPar is the daddy for Parity files too.
winrar as normal.