I'm stuck in the world of dialup and using Xnews. That means that it
usually takes about three weeks of letting my computer d/l a movie at
night, even for the most compressed format. If someone posts a dvd image,
it takes about 5 weeks to d/l.
Since my usenet server keeps postings for nearly a year, that isn't
usually a problem, until I ran across your posts with all the file parts
under a single header. Xnews only recalls which part it finished one time
per thread, so the third time I start the d/l, Xnews starts the d/l from
the first part again. This has prevented me from being able to D/L any of
the posts that put an entire movie under a single thread. For all
practical purposes, I can't D/L anything that has more than about 150
MBytes per thread. If someone could suggest a news reader that is more
capable fo remembering where it last stopped the D/L, instead of where it
FIRST stopped the D/L, I would appreciate the help.
regards,
Joe
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