Author Topic: Usenet ? (Read 539 times)

Gunslinger · « **on:** February 21, 2005, 11:03:11 AM »

Anyone who uses this know how to download newest threads/headers first? also what reader do you use. It takes way to long to D/L 100,000 * new headers when what I want is one of the last ones.

any help or ideas would be helpfull.

Suave · « **Reply #1 on:** February 21, 2005, 11:05:37 AM »

I HATE YOU

Because you're tdy, and I'm a working class sheep.

Sandman · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2005, 11:05:49 AM »

Hmmm... it's been a long time since I frequented UseNet.

From what I hear, it's dying anyway.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2005, 12:19:10 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
Hmmm... it's been a long time since I frequented UseNet.

From what I hear, it's dying anyway.

I may be ignorant on the subject but I am a Newscene subscriber and its not dying at all its thriving pretty good. My problem is I'll see something on a search site that I want in a group but the group has half a million threads that I don't feel like downloading. Just wondering if there were any subject matter experts.

Suave....I got back yesturday......drove a measly 1300 miles in two days....BUT it was in a borrowed Tiberon.....a very uncomfortable car to drive or ride.

Back to being a worker bee for me.....at least I will be an inspector soon....wich really means nothing cept I'll be inspecting more and working less but working none the less.

Sandman · « **Reply #4 on:** February 21, 2005, 12:26:10 PM »

http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_Pulls_Plug_on_Newsgroup_Service/1106664611

Gunslinger · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2005, 12:34:12 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_Pulls_Plug_on_Newsgroup_Service/1106664611

u disapoint me...AOL????? JK

The groups that I subscribe to the most seem alive and well to me.

This however, gave me a laugh this morning

http://www.lokitorrent.com/

Sandman · « **Reply #6 on:** February 21, 2005, 12:40:52 PM »

Hehe... if AOL is discontinuing it, that's probably a good thing.

Try this:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/04/2224201

JB73 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 21, 2005, 01:22:29 PM »

i use Xnews it's free

i don't know how to get the RAR's and piece them together and all, but xnews is pretty easy to read stuff

Callisto · « **Reply #8 on:** February 21, 2005, 02:47:34 PM »

Xnews is a little buggy but works great.

Takes me about 20 min to load up very busy newsgroups.

To download/decode files, just select files you want and hit F4.

P.S. having a dedicated usenet provider make everything so much faster and easier.

SunKing · « **Reply #9 on:** February 21, 2005, 02:57:23 PM »

http://www.newsbin.com

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2005, 04:18:59 PM »

I'm too young to know. I've heard of things like Usenet,Gopher,Compuserve but never used them.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #11 on:** February 21, 2005, 04:33:27 PM »

I've used newsbin and currently I use giganews as my reader. I just dont see the point in Downloading 500,000 threads to get the newest ones. There's gotta be a reader out there that will download the newest ones first.

JB73 getting ALL the files is the key. after that just use WinRar or something simular to unpack them. There's another program that's almost an essential and that's QuickPAR2 or WinPar2. It will check all the chunks to make sure they are complete and even repair broken ones.

Vulcan · « **Reply #12 on:** February 21, 2005, 06:35:48 PM »

ahh usenet, the greatest collection of pre-categorised pr0n known to mankind.

Sandman · « **Reply #13 on:** February 21, 2005, 07:04:46 PM »

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Originally posted by JB73
i use Xnews it's free

i don't know how to get the RAR's and piece them together and all, but xnews is pretty easy to read stuff

Consider yourself warned.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #14 on:** February 21, 2005, 07:09:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
Consider yourself warned.

those usually take the shape of the following:

Christina_agulara_naked.rar