How do you d/l off a newsgroup

[nealh]

I have verizon FIOS and have d/led the newsgroups but have no idea how to download from there

I have tried outlook express and FreeAgent

any help would be great

 

[Doh!]

Use something like Xnews. Double-click on files to download.

 

[nealh]

thanks guys using newsbin pro trial..seems to be working...may need to buy this puppy

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Switch to GrabIt. Free and very good. Only downside is that it doesn't automatically show you the articles you download when updating. You have to wait for the update to finish to view the new articles. I got used to it after a couple days switching from NewsBin Pro.

 

[nealh]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
Switch to GrabIt. Free and very good. Only downside is that it doesn't automatically show you the articles you download when updating. You have to wait for the update to finish to view the new articles. I got used to it after a couple days switching from NewsBin Pro.

thanks I will give it a try

Do you use a MIME encoder if so which one

 

[Zap]

For Free Agent, if you have the list of newsgroups, highlight the group name you want and click on the toolbar button for Retrieve Headers, IIRC it is the second button from the left. After you have headers, if you just want to read a message, highlight it and press Enter to download it. You can download blocks by highlighting multiple messages (same as any other software, hold CTRL to click on individual messages, hold SHIFT to do blocks of messages). To download a binary attachment, highlight the message and hit CTRL-D. If the entire file is within one message you'll get the file. Sometimes files are split - commonly using a binary splitter or using WINRAR. You'd need WINRAR to join/uncompress the RAR files and you'd need HJSPLIT to join binary split files. I like Free Agent because it can handle YENC attachments. YENC is a new encoding different from the older UUE or BIN64 and is more efficient. Files typically take about 20% less size meaning they download faster and take up less server space. Of course, many programs don't support YENC yet, so you'll see a lot of flame wars about it in binary groups.

 

[nealh]

thanks for all the great advice, help and suggestions