| Re: JimB0ss, fantastic updates to the collection this weekend, thank you. |
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| Isis (isis55423@hotpop.com) |
2010/01/28 07:41 |
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:54:44 -0600, vesd@ris <fake@chaos.com> wrote:
:Isis <isis55423@hotpop.com> wrote:
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:>If you just use it for d/l-ing with .NZB's, you will never load any groups... I
:>never have.
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:NZB index sites are not that good anymore. They lack in retention, each one of
:them got different issues with not finding certain posts. For instance
:nzbindex.nl got only 260+days retention for this group. Bintube is a comlete
:mess considering dvd.criterion,just browse this group via bintube, binsearch
:has dropped its retention to 300 days and also has started lacking in update
:rates.
:Thats the price for giving away free search.
Well, there's always the Newzbin search engine for a small fee, although they
got caught a bit flat-footed when GN started increasing retention without
telling anyone.
:I d just pay a small fee of 25+ bucks a year to get 500 days search with
:boolean wildmats which none of them got(if u ever try it u appreciate it that
:very minute)
:and superfast loading of certain number of groups. Besides nowadays giganews
:and astraweb have header compression feature so u can get those headers way
:fast. Well and i gues i jsut like it the old way lol
:I also tried Fort Agent and to be honest my impression is that it lacks in
:loading groups speedAnd though im not very fond of UE interface i couldt get
:over FA interface at all.
Since Forte Agent is totally configurable, its interface requires some effort on
the part of the user. There is an NG dedicated to this:
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
:>Again, you shouldn't use it as a newsreader. And the price is free if you get
:>it
:>at a.b.multimedia.utilities.
:
:Whys that? Its main purpose is to be a newsreader. With nzb and internal search
:features. I blame poor coding.Yet still its better than newsleechers.
:If i wanted to use a client just for NZb downloading i would go for sabnzbd
:which is completely free or altbinz(one payment for life)
No, NewsBin Pro is_not_a newsreader... it is a binary downloader.
Mine is set up to be associated with .NZB files and nothing more. I never
activate it as a program. When I click on any .NZB file, NewsBin pops up and
starts downloading it. It doesn't d/l the .PAR2's (except for the checksum
.par2). When it is finished, it runs QuickPar. If it needs any repair it
downloads just enough .PAR2 files to fix the problem & repairs the archive. Then
it extracts the archive via WinRAR. When it is done, it deletes all of the
garbage files and leaves you with a ready-to-burn DVD file.
I find all of that rather convenient.
Isis
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