Just wanting a heads up on newsgroups as I'm looking at paying for one, but i dont want to jump straight in. What im after is some info on them e.g what are they, how to setup, best ones etc. :Cheers: in advance.
Newsgroups is the modern name for ye old Usenet.
Usenet was around before the internet (as we know it) and can be accessed via different routes.
Basically, without getting too technical, it involves encoding files into emails and posting them onto usenet servers, which are kinda like large e-mail servers except everyone can see the messages - they are not private. Your chosen Newsreader will grab all the relative 'e-mails' and join them together, it will then decode them (currently the most popular method of decoding is the Yenc system, but some post still usiong the old UUencode system - this is irrelevant though)
Regardless of encoding method your........oh fook, I wanted to keep it simple but I can't, I'm a saddo nerd.
I'll hand it over to someone else...
That was informative you geek.
Have a read at Slycks guide below and then ask any questions you may need to ask.
You need a news client and theres plenty of indexing sites about to grab an nzb (which is just a small file which tells the client where the files are you want)
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php
Best value for money news server is Ngroups (IMHO) there are better but not better value.
I agree with Jaffa, Ngroups can't be beaten for price vs service.
@ Femalelizard, sorry mate, but my post was gonna go on and on explaining all sorts of non essential bullshit, lol
yeh jaffa is clever though he just used someone elses already typed up post lmao what a show off
Witchy was around when they used morse code to download stuff....roud:..........but he knows his newsgroups, the old school way.
Personally I prefer to do it old-skool.
Learn a little about Usenet and download your own headers and never miss a thing.
But be prepared to sacrefice a lot of drive space soley to headers.
This method combined with a decent indexing site means you'll never miss anything.
(Newzbin.com IMO had went downhill for the last year, but recently they seem to have gotten their act together)
Cheers guys I'm having a read now. Ill get back to you lot with some questions undoubtedly roud:
So how much shall i expexct to pay for all the needed things?
Cheers for all the help lads i think im going for Ngroups for the server, i was looking at Giganews but decided against it. How many connections do you get with Ngroups is it unlimited too and I've just downloaded a 'free' version of Newsleacher. so basically all i will need once i buy access to Ngroups is an nzb site. I guessing on the right track now roud: :Cheers:
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