Originally posted by: MangoTBG
Originally posted by: jbritt1234
Check out the indexing site
www.Newzbin.com. It's a pay site, but it's really cheap, like .30 a week or someting. They index all the files and they all show as posts forum-style. You just search for what you want, download the nzb file and then plug that into a compatable news reader (I use Newsbin Pro)
But why would I want to use two programs (web browser and newsgroup reader) when I could just use one? Just seems like that would complicate the process? SuperSearch is built into Newsleecher you can make a search for an item, such as "windows" and then filter those search results with "xp" or "vista" etc. etc. (it filters while you type)...pretty handy-dandy. I don't think that's possible with forums, though..
One of the main reasons would be that you don't have to download any headers. ever. Searching is much easier. Also, things are broken down into category, so you can move to a category and just see what's been posted recently. Example, you could be looking around and say, "Hey! There is X! I forgot all about X, i'm goign to download it!".
You can also set up "Watch dogs" that will alert you when something meets your match criteria. So, say you are wanting something that is not on the groups yet, or is maybe old and just gets posted every once in a while. You can set up a watchdog and it emails you whenever something meets your search terms.
There are many pro's to the site. You just have to try it out.
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