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Posted by me on 11/29/05 03:39
ChenHA wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:50:20 -0600, me@privacy.net wrote:
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>>Chen,
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>>What news server do you use to get a.b.m.a? I realize to get binaries,
>>one will most likely have to pay for a news server. I don't mind that,
>>but I would like to know which ones have been most useful, before
>>plunking down my loot.
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> You got a link in the other post, another useful link if you aren't
> familiar with the use of binary newsgroups is
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> http://www.slyck.com/ng.php
Thanks, Chen. Saw that post AFTER I posted the txn to you.
I'm quite familiar with binaries, and Usenet. When I was with
Mindspring/Earthlink many moons ago, had pretty good Usenet coverage.
Then, had to move to a small town ISP that didn't have any news server.
Started using SeniorGlobe as an ISP, and they had a news server; but,
it sucked. So, I went over to news.individual.de, where I remain today,
because I'm with yet another small town ISP that has no news server.
You guys that live in areas where you have good ISP's, with good
broadband service and news servers are SUPREMELY lucky. But, then
again, I don't have to deal with traffic, crime, and all those modern
conveniences. I do have to drive 20 miles to get a gallon of milk or
bottle of booze. But, no traffic on that drive!
>
> My ISP (Claranet) has a reasonably good news server, but as it is an
> unpaid (or rather not specifically paid for) service it has short
> retention time for binaries (only about 3 days but it may fluctuate a
> bit). Check whether your ISP has a good service first before you give
> out your money.
>
> Because of the short retention time of my ISP I have since signed up
> to Easynews as a back-up when files disappear faster than I can
> downlod them. Easynews has longish retention time (again this
> fluctuates, used to be able to get close to 40 days, now it has
> dropped down to 28), but the good point is that you can do a global
> search for all the files, so you can search here -
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> http://members.easynews.com/global4/search.html
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> for say, Russell Morris, and up pop all the files that have the name.
> You can either use a regular news reader or their website for
> downloading files but using their website seems to be better. It is
> also cheap, at the current exchange rate it is only about £6 per
> month.
>
> The most important thing about news server is the retention time and
> the completion rate, if you want one with very long retention time and
> high completion rate then try Giganews. I have heard of another one
> which claimed to have even longer retention time but can't remember
> what it is called (it sells itself as a p2p service). Other news
> server may also be very good and I'll leave it to those who use them
> to tell you about the good points of those services.
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I followed the link in the other post, and am kicking around which news
server I'm willing to pay for.
Thanks to all for all your help.
Stranger
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