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<< I saw this movie last year (good ol' Usenet). All I can say is... cheesiest ending ever. >>
Would someone explain to me how Usenet works? I've heard from some ppl you have to pay and some ppl say you don't. Whats the deal? >>
Usenet is the original way of saying newsgroups. Depending on your ISP you'll either have access to it or not for free, check your documentation or call the support line. They can tell you how to set them up. Think of usenet as a giant Anandtech forums. Each newsgroup would be the equivalent of a forum. When you download the list of newsgroups, everything is listed in alphabetical order. 99% of the time, what you want starts with alt. and has subcategories. Say you wanted to talk about food. You could start in alt.food. Once you subscribe to that newsgroup you'll download all of the recent messages in that newsgroup. It's like clicking on Off Topic from the anandtech forums home page. You'll see lots of different conversations going on at the same time. Say you wanted to download a file, you'd have to go to alt.binaries.<subcategory>. I'm not going into more specific details publicly because I don't know how much I can say about the binaries subcategories without getting busted for porn or warez, so take a look and if you can't figure out the rest PM me.
If your ISP doesn't offer access to newsgroups for free (or the newer thing is for ISP's to not carry the alt.binaries groups(because they are so big and take up the majority of the bandwidth from people downloading movies/games/porn) you'll have to look into a paid newsgroup service. I'm sure some people can recomend a few, I believe easynews was one of the ones I heard before.
Personally, I say forget usenet and just go straight to kazaa... it's much easier and quicker too.
