Thx. I'll try Mimo. I think Giga gets slammed a bit ecause of
copyright claims, they actualy remove items. Hence my move to Forte
for the older stuff.
OR
On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 11:43:45 -0400, Spermy Tonsilgloss
<spermeister@boobonicplague.cum> wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 08:55:44 -0400, Orange_Roughy!
><Orange_Roughy@Motor.cit> wrote:
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>>Yes, I usually look for his stuff for authenticity. BTW, my NZB search
>>engines go back up to 4 years, would love toknow if you've got
>>something that will search back to '08. I can retrieve stuff back
>>about that far, using Giganews and the Forte newsgroup servers, but I
>>can't search back that far. I have a bunch of stuff in the directories
>>on my HD that go back tyo '08 but of course that's incomplete.
>>
>>Thanks for all your posts as well... good eye!
>>
>>OR
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>Hi OR
>
>I use Giga's supplied Mimo Usenet browser. It is good for searches way
>back. While it is much faster at retrieval of content vs. Forte Agent,
>it does miss many pieces and sometimes comes up incomplete with
>insufficient pars. I do also have Agent's news, but a the lower
>monthly per 20 gigabyte tier. So if Giganews and/or Mimo don't
>deliver, I can export a NiZuBfrom Mimo, and then use Agent to pull in
>the item(s) from Giganews with failover as secondary service to
>Forte's news server. That usually does the trick for me. And Forte
>usage reamains manageable, but for me recently, I did bump up the
>Forte plan as I find a lot of interesting stuff that is older...
>
>That all being said, Mimo is buggy and primitive (lacks features) and
>some of the interface is klutzy crap. So I usually use Agent. Mimo is
>great for the big stuff >>1GB or for Giganews server (only) searches
>and retrievals. Mimo does not search other providers. It also returns
>a max of 3000 entries, but you can trim out obvious crap using teh
>minus sign ahead of the text to be filteered out, and/or limit/sort by
>article age/sizes
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>Spermy
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