Newsgroups WTF?

tenorbass · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:58 pm **Post subject:** Newsgroups WTF?

Hey guys I am really intrested in this Newsgroup and NZB stuff. How do you dl NZB files? I found a NZB serch and theirs some on this forum. I know you have to use a program like Grabit to dl but dont you have to connect to a server to b able to DL NZB files? Is their any free servers I can connect to? Dont really whanna pay untill I get a hold on how to dl

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:03 pm **Post subject:**

Quote:

Is their any free servers I can connect to?

If your isp has some they might be usable, otherwise free servers give you an extremely unreliable and misleading view on nzbs.

tenorbass · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:11 pm **Post subject:**

Yea my newsgroup wont let me connect...

MCMLXXXVIII · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:49 pm **Post subject:**

See this thread: http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic.php?t=13269, it's still accessible, although you'll need to get files within 1 day or you'll end up with incompletes. No harm in trying!

video-man · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:07 pm **Post subject:**

newsleecher and giganews

tenorbass · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:56 pm **Post subject:**

newsleecher asks for a server to connect what should i enter?
My ISP does provide usenet. I entered it into the server thing in newsleech and its dling but at 0.1kbs should i try a program like grabit?

killingjokezzz · **Posted:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:16 pm **Post subject:**

I'm on Newhosting and use the SABnzbd client myself.

Grabit or Newsleecher should both work OK. As spud says it is maybe worth getting a paid for account. PC_Arcade will love you if you use the referral in his sig for UseNetSever :wacky:

You'll never look back once you get a decent feed - believe me you won't.

tenorbass · **Posted:** Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:54 am **Post subject:**

Well I did my homework last night. I read that whole guide on newsgroups. I now understand that I am paying for a server to connect to, this lets me dl my files. I use a newsreader to dl my NZB files. But the thing that I cant get my mind around is how everyone that uses Newsgroups say that you can find anything and everything use newsgroups. I didnt find that, I serched some NZB forums and only found a couple of good things and not much horror. Used
http://www.binsearch.info/groups.php And really couldnt find much of anything or any good horror movies that are on this forum! So were are all these files being kept? I am missing something? I really havent found anything that really wowed me yet.. Am i just looking for NZB's in the wrong places?

Wow long post

MCMLXXXVIII · **Posted:** Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:53 am **Post subject:**

Newgroups wil never rival eMule's 700 million or so files, even with a news provider with a long retention, so I don't know who told you they have 'everything'.

I think people use it mainly for new scene releases, anything major and lots of minor ones are on usenet. Use VCD Quality or NFOrce to find out what's new and search for what you want using Binsearch.

It's also worth browsing newgroups in Binsearch to find ones that post stuff you like (genre music MP3s, DVDRs, games etc.) and keep checking back to them every so often for the new stuff.

tenorbass · **Posted:** Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:53 pm **Post subject:**

Thanks for the heads up! My emule is starting to Dl faster so I guess I will use that for horror and rare movies. I dl from rapidshare.com to get all the new movies, death metal and some horror movies and alot of scifi TV. Doesnt look like I will need newsgroups, just kinda whanted to get around rapidshares 4 gigs a day but what the hell if it works use it

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:43 pm **Post subject:**

newsgroups are defintely much, much, much better than rapidshare.de :lol:

But if you got no need for them that's good

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