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Oct 22nd, 2007 05:54 PM #1Deal Addict
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Newgroups
Someone told me newsgroups are better than torrents, anyone know the site? it is like a whole hidden community. Can't find jack on it
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Oct 22nd, 2007 08:04 PM #3Deal Addict
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What do you use?
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I use Agent which is a fairly popular newsreader. Even Outlook Express has a basic newsreader capability.
Newsgroups have not attracted the legal problems like torrents.
My local service provider has a news server but it's limited so I have a monthly subscription to a large US news server. Reply With Quote
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As someone that is first starting out with newsgroup, I suggest Newsleecher. It has a very easy to use interface for mainly binary files. The super search function makes searching for files super easy as well.
for a free alternative try Grabit. It is the best free newsgroup reader IMO.
As for nzb indexing sites for easy newsgroup usage
i'm sure you can find them on google.
Oh prepare to pay for newsgroup access because most service providers don't provide newgroups access anymore. Those that does won't have the completion and retention as those paid ones. Reply With Quote
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Oct 23rd, 2007 11:27 AM #6Deal Addict
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I think I might subscribe to Giganet, but all this is still very confusing. I have grabit and got the nzb file from ********* but it won't download hmm?
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Have you subscribe to Giganet yet? you won't be able to download the files without access to a newsgroup provider.
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in Grabit there is a [use default server] I'm guessing that connects to nothing?
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by default?... uhmm yeah probably, you have to change the server settings to whoever your newsgroup provider is, so if you don't have one, it connects to nothing.
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Most, if not all, newsgroup providers also require authentication (login & password) to get on their server. It will be provided once you send them payment. Giganews (if that's who you mean), is a great if not expensive provider. You can go with usenetserver.com or newshosting.com for cheaper unlimited.
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No one really explicitly said it, but newsgroups are many many times better than torrents. a decent host will have content back for around 75 days worth of downloads (essentially anything that was uploaded in the last 75 days will be available for you to download). Content usually is the same as what you would find on torrents, so basically everything. The best part though is the speed. The good newgroup hosts will have no problem sending you content at 100mbit if your connection can go that fast.
All that said, you gotta pay if you want a decent newsgroup server. Some isps have free ones, but they all suck and a half from what I've seen. If you want a referral code btw let me know
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Powerusenet has a $10/month for the first 2 months promotion $15 after that.
They've been pretty good so far.
I've used:
Giganews (too expensive)
Newshosting (retention sucks at 45days)
and Powerusenet (good promotion, good retention, 105days) Reply With Quote
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I don't know where the 1 person in this thread gets that newgroups are more " safer from legality " then torrents are .... but they oviously didn't read what I did a few days ago on 1 of the tech sites news sections reguarding the riaa starting to build up cases to go after newsgroups.
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