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booter
01-14-2018, 09:25 PM
For those of you who obtain content from newsgroups and have found that many articles are missing or incomplete from your newsgroup provider lately, try using SABnzbd ( Free software) hxxps://sabnzbd.org/downloads as your client.
I was using Grabit as my client and was having that problem. Now with SABnzbd most articles are there and complete from my newsgroup provider. Also if you use more providers you will have a better chance of success.
Booter

johnnylarue
01-14-2018, 10:58 PM
People are still using usenet? In the mid/late 90's, I spent a lot of time on usenet discussion groups. The satellite groups(alt.dss.hack, alt.dbs.echostar.hack, etc) were packed back then. It was good till about 2004, then the trolls and spammers destroyed everything.

booter
01-14-2018, 11:42 PM
This post was focused more to persons who use binary newsgroups for music, movies etc. Discussion groups have been taken over by Facebook ,Twitter etc.

booter
01-15-2018, 12:24 AM
I would like to add to my above post "non copyrighted" music and movies.
Loved to watch Second City, Johnny. ..back in the day.
Booter

johnnylarue
01-15-2018, 01:48 AM
This post was focused more to persons who use binary newsgroups for music, movies etc. Discussion groups have been taken over by Facebook ,Twitter etc.

I gotcha. I tried gignews years ago because the ISPs were throttling torrents at the time. It is probably the safest way to fly these days.

booter
01-15-2018, 02:34 AM
I gotcha. I tried gignews years ago because the ISPs were throttling torrents at the time. It is probably the safest way to fly these days.

Most definitely! Nzbs beat the hell out of p2p.