[Scuddie]

Newsgroups >>>> Torrents

No exceptions.

[redsniper]

Sure, if you're trying to get the latest Naruto ep or something.

[Scuddie]

...WTF?

I have NEVER been able to find something on torrent networks that I couldn't find multiple sources while using Giganews.  That, and the popular stuff doesn't download at 2k/s.  And don't forget the fact that your connection doesn't drop because of upstream saturation.  Also, good luck being anonymous on a torrent network.  MAFIAA can still see you.

Face it, compared to newsgroups, torrents royally suck the big one.

[redsniper]

Well, I'll just come out and say it: I don't know how to use newsgroups to download stuff. I tried once upon a time (using XNews though) and couldn't quite figure it out. It could be that there was some simple setting or option that wasn't set up correctly, I could have been looking in the wrong groups, whatever. I was able to find and get what I was looking for more easily with bittorrent than with newsgroups, and if that makes me less l33t, oh well.

[Scuddie]

http://binsearch.info/

[karajorma]

Scuddie! Shhhhhhhhh! 

Right now RIAA seem to have forgotten about usenet. Let everyone keep thinking that it's old fashioned and not worth bothering with.


Incidentally which newsreader do you use? I'm still pottering about with XNews which is frigging ancient but I've never found a client that's free which I like as much as it.

[Scuddie]

No, they haven't forgotten about it, they know they can't do a damn thing about it.  If you don't distribute, or download directly from them, they aren't allowed to touch you.

And I use GrabIt.  It's decent enough to get the job done, and it merges all the headers like most commercial based applications do.  But I use it mostly with .nzb and such.  Browsing large channels takes way too frikkin long to download the header data, and some systems can't handle the vast amount of memory required to index it all.

[jr2]

I looked into to it; it appears more trouble than anything else...  apparently you must find an NNTP server or somesuch...?