Newsgoups ---heh?

quarryman

I've started using Easynews.com a little but it still confuses the hell out of me. I can't really find what I'm looking for most of the time. I've tried looking for some N64 roms but when i go to the emulation section i get a list of files for each day and some sections have no files listed at all.

Is this the best newsgroup out there or am I just using it wrong?

Moriarty

/me keeps a close eye of thread

Any warez talk gets it binned.

Shamo

I don't use Easynews i'm subscribed to Astraweb, but a good newsgroup reader is Grabit.

What I did at first is get the list of groups, then search for what you want like divx, emulators whatever and sort by number of headers. Just subscribe to the biggest ones and search through those.

Only subscribe to the alt.binaries groups if you didn't know

quarryman

Originally posted by Shamo
I don't use Easynews i'm subscribed to Astraweb, but a good newsgroup reader is Grabit.

What I did at first is get the list of groups, then search for what you want like divx, emulators whatever and sort by number of headers. Just subscribe to the biggest ones and search through those.

Only subscribe to the alt.binaries groups if you didn't know

so astraweb and grabit are good? easynews seems ok, but not the best. the amount of p0rn on these newsgroups is scary, even simple searches seem to return p0rn results. boo!

Only subscribe to the alt.binaries groups if you didn't know

why is that?

sort by number of headers.

is a header a file?

TIA

Moriarty

http://www.faqs.org/usenet/

http://docs.newzbin.com/UsenetTutorials

Read those.

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