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$1 unlimited usenet access

Wow! I saw this post and signed up with them this morning. Great service and speed, have been connected and using their service since about a minute after I got my welcome email.

Thanks for the post DudeAbides!
 
pmanipole said:
i have never used usnet. any sites that review them
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Usenet was the old system of pre forum days newsgroups, like rec.audio.high-end where people would post public messages often in a threaded format to discuss topics. It was pure text and messages had a fairly short max length, but pretty quickly tools were created to allow binary 8 bit per byte information to be encoded into ASCII text 6 bits, so short "files" started showing up as part of the discussion. Initially people griped about wasted bandwidth, and pretty much all of the binary files got kicked out of the text message area into .bin groups. It grew. Now days groups like alt.bin.mp3 have TB of files on usenet servers.


Link to a usenet tool http://www.newsbin.com/
Link to a usenet faq http://www.dslreports.com/faq/usenet
 
NeverEnough said:
Wow! I saw this post and signed up with them this morning. Great service and speed, have been connected and using their service since about a minute after I got my welcome email.

Thanks for the post DudeAbides!
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Astroturfing at it's finest.
 
Does this service have a web interface? I have easynews and LOVE it. Instead of downloading 834 files in some weird yenc format or some other junk, it already combines them and decodes them so you can download the one final file you want. I don't see that feature in theusenet.com
 
I use a program, Newsbin Pro, $20 lifetime, and it searches and presents as you like it. Lately I have been using a web based indexing search which creates a file that tells newsbin what and where to download.
 
No such thing as a free lunch. A free news server would be the worst for binary file retention and no one uses it for anything else anymore.

considering how I am not seeing xsusenet on the review sites, I am going to conclude it is simply a reseller or alternately named/themed service from one of them.

You can probably find a better deal from the real host themselves, as this deal probably comes with caveats like lower bandwidth or smaller retention

If you don't know what usenet is, you prolly have little use for them. I myself have been a long time user of easynews. I am not a big user of it now as most...all of my anime comes from torrents, but its web interface that is capable of easy fast searches and thumbnails/stats of images and movies are extremely hard to beat. No one else does this and it saves alot of guess work since there is a ton, a TON of crap posted on usenet.
 
lets say i download alot of movies, is this a better deal then torrents that dont cost anything. also is this a better way to stay hidden from the man?
 
$1 for a month is a good deal but $11/month is far from a good deal. Search for other deals (usenetserver, astraweb, ...)
 
Easynews is the best. 10$ a month and they have an incredible web interface where you can query for anything you want with an insane number of filters such as date range, size, type (audio, video, etc), etc. Newsgroups SUCK if you don't have something filtering one thing you want and giving it to you in one lump file. With standard NNTP access you have to peruse through tens, or hundreds of thousands of posts and, if you find what you want, it is probably 200 different rar files, yencoded and they will be riddled through 800 other posts. So then you have to try to download all 200, then you have to ydecode them or whatever, then unrar them. It's insanely difficult. Some newsgroup readers make it SLIGHTLY easier but it's still a huge pain. With easynews I may do something like search for "SomeMovieName" and check 'video' type and whola. There it is. I just right click and choose save as and the final mkv or avi (or whatever it is) comes down. If there is a way as easy as easynews and cheaper I'll bite. I signed up for this for 1$, just downloaded Forte, which I haven't used in like 7 years, and it's everything I remembered; a huge pain in the ass. Back to easynews. JeffMD is right.
 
mleejr said:
Easynews is the best. 10$ a month and they have an incredible web interface where you can query for anything you want with an insane number of filters such as date range, size, type (audio, video, etc), etc. Newsgroups SUCK if you don't have something filtering one thing you want and giving it to you in one lump file. With standard NNTP access you have to peruse through tens, or hundreds of thousands of posts and, if you find what you want, it is probably 200 different rar files, yencoded and they will be riddled through 800 other posts. So then you have to try to download all 200, then you have to ydecode them or whatever, then unrar them. It's insanely difficult. Some newsgroup readers make it SLIGHTLY easier but it's still a huge pain. With easynews I may do something like search for "SomeMovieName" and check 'video' type and whola. There it is. I just right click and choose save as and the final mkv or avi (or whatever it is) comes down. If there is a way as easy as easynews and cheaper I'll bite. I signed up for this for 1$, just downloaded Forte, which I haven't used in like 7 years, and it's everything I remembered; a huge pain in the ass. Back to easynews. JeffMD is right.
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see that might work for me then.

ive tried the newsgroup thing like 5 times over the years. i always go back to public torrents. newsgroups were always just too big of a pain in the ass for me. and ive noticed that public torrents are safe too as long as you use encryption in your downloader
 
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