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Title: Usenet ?
Post by: 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.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Suave on February 21, 2005, 11:05:37 AM: I HATE YOU

Because you're tdy, and I'm a working class sheep.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Sandman 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.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Gunslinger on February 21, 2005, 12:19:10 PM: Quote
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.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Sandman on February 21, 2005, 12:26:10 PM: http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_Pulls_Plug_on_Newsgroup_Service/1106664611
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Gunslinger on February 21, 2005, 12:34:12 PM: Quote
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/
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Sandman 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
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: JB73 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
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Callisto 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.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: SunKing on February 21, 2005, 02:57:23 PM: http://www.newsbin.com
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: spitfiremkv 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.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Gunslinger 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.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Vulcan on February 21, 2005, 06:35:48 PM: ahh usenet, the greatest collection of pre-categorised pr0n known to mankind.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Sandman on February 21, 2005, 07:04:46 PM: Quote
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. (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1756636,00.asp)
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Gunslinger on February 21, 2005, 07:09:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
Consider yourself warned. (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1756636,00.asp)

those usually take the shape of the following:

Christina_agulara_naked.rar
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Sandman on February 21, 2005, 07:12:07 PM: LOL... Today we learn that Gun's tastes lean towards "skank". ;)
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: NUKE on February 21, 2005, 07:15:31 PM: download a program called "Agent" by Forte. It's free and it's a good newsreader.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Sandman on February 21, 2005, 07:17:55 PM: Quote
Originally posted by NUKE
download a program called "Agent" by Forte. It's free and it's a good newsreader.

Hey... I remember that one. :)
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Gunslinger on February 21, 2005, 08:02:55 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
LOL... Today we learn that Gun's tastes lean towards "skank". ;)

yes some skanks deserve more attention than others ;)
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Sandman on February 21, 2005, 08:04:06 PM: I hope you weren't expecting an argument. :aok
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Gunslinger on February 21, 2005, 08:10:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
I hope you weren't expecting an argument. :aok

wouldnt care either way. I think she sings better than most and has a georgous ass......where's the argument :cool:
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Sandman on February 21, 2005, 08:13:01 PM: She sings? ;)
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: Gunslinger on February 21, 2005, 08:15:32 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
She sings? ;)

LOL

Who'd a noticed :lol
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: jigsaw on February 21, 2005, 08:17:15 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
She sings? ;)

Na, she just yells at Paris for having her phone number handy.

Forte's Agent is a great program. I started off with the free version in '95 and ended up going with the registered one. One of the few original net programs that I thought was worth the price. Others being Ultraedit, and ACDSee.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: TweetyBird on February 21, 2005, 11:12:04 PM: Haven't used usenet since I got burned out on porn :D

Ok, I confess, I search the urban legend groups once in awhile..
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: JB73 on February 23, 2005, 08:21:14 PM: forte agent is ok, i like the interface better, but you have to pay after 30 days... the free version that you get to use have features stripped
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: NUKE on February 23, 2005, 08:24:57 PM: The free version of Agent is all I use. It's a good news reader, I don't really miss any features that the pay version has.

Which features are missing that you'd use? Just curious.
Title: Usenet ?
Post by: JB73 on February 23, 2005, 08:36:23 PM: i dont remember, but i think something to do with cached topics already read, and getting new headers... it's been like 5-6 months since i have tried it.