news groups

[coatsy2000]

anyone got any good news groups that an be used with aol. iam A BIT new to this :splease

[4me2]

If your looking for download scources on NG then you arent going to find any free ones Im afraid. I think most UK users go for Claranews and the like which arent free and you pay a monthly subscription.

[elephantsoup]

If your looking for download scources on NG then you arent going to find any free ones Im afraid. I think most UK users go for Claranews and the like which arent free and you pay a monthly subscription.

Couldnt agree more mate.. claranews is the dogs bollix. been with them for years.. also its worth paying the $10 a month for easynews as well just for fills.

[coatsy2000]

Couldnt agree more mate.. claranews is the dogs bollix. been with them for years.. also its worth paying the $10 a month for easynews as well just for fills.

cheers guys iam now on easynews as clara net was down at the time

[Kalier]

i was after that info too so thanks

Are they easy to use??never used a news group.

Cheers

[oE]

Yeh there easy - get a copy of powergrab or grabit.

Google will give you URL's to them both.

oE.

[bobbydavro]

I just use easynews for everything, why should I use Claranews as well? Is it cheaper/faster or anything?

[Freaky]

well for the past 6 or 7 months ive had everything i needed off my own isp,s group, but im thinkin of gettin claranews for a few things i cant get.

[bobbydavro]

what isp you with Freaky? I'm on zen but I must admit I've never even looked at their groups I assumed they would be shite?

You really can't beat Easynews and the web browser is an absolute dream to use.

[elephantsoup]

Heres a little tip which helped me.

I use newsbin as my binary newsreader.. I have a bt account so I put the bt sever as the first news server in my server list then I put my pay per month servers in in order of cost per gig. Newsbin will download any parts of a file that are available from the first server that has them.. in my case it will choose bt if the file part (chunk) is on bt.. if not it moves to the next in the list and so on... therefore if a part can be downloaded from my free news service it doesnt use up my paid for gigage quite as fast.

Hope this tip is of use to someone.

[Freaky]

what isp you with Freaky? I'm on zen but I must admit I've never even looked at their groups I assumed they would be shite?

You really can't beat Easynews and the web browser is an absolute dream to use.

im with blueyonder m8, and i use xnews for my newsreader, its the only one i realy know how to use as ive not tried any others apart from newsbin i think.

the only thing i dunno how to do on xnews is resume files, so i just delete the last one and start again from that

[4me2]

im with blueyonder m8, and i use xnews for my newsreader, its the only one i realy know how to use as ive not tried any others apart from newsbin i think.

the only thing i dunno how to do on xnews is resume files, so i just delete the last one and start again from that

I use grabbit now it autoresumes.

[bobbydavro]

**** me i just tried out zens news server and I cannot believe how good it is. Well its only got a 2day retention but its pretty much complete.

I'll be using that a bit more then should save a bit of my easynews quota anyway.

soup sounds interesting with your set up will give that a whirl. I got so used to using the easynews web browser I haven't bothered with any news readers in yonks. Just tried grabit and very impressed (far better than the old agent we used to endure!) Can grabit do the setup you suggest having your free server then your paid in order?

[bobbydavro]

Also soup using that setup which do you use to download the headers?

[oE]

I use grabbit now it autoresumes.

Yeh m8t but powerpost does retrys so much better - powergrab is better m8t.

freaky - i got 3 usernet accounts on me 3mb link - u need fills give me a shout

oE.

[bobbydavro]

oE does powergrab do the server thing that soup mentions?

[oE]

bobby - na but I have unlimited accouts - I run several copies of powergrab, set em away and go and put the kettle on :-)

oE.

[bobbydavro]

I'm intrigued by this multiple server thing tho, if it gets 90% of the files on your free news server and then just tops up automatic with easynews then I'll save loads on quota.

Especially if it can even get the incomplete files on the free and then complete them with easy.

[bobbydavro]

been playing around with newsbin, superb program.

so much better than shitty old agent we used to use years ago.

[Aido]

been playing around with newsbin, superb program.

so much better than shitty old agent we used to use years ago.

Hehe, I'm still using Agent for my email nowadays - have been since 1995 - I really need a new email client

It's shite for binaries but still okay for reading text articles..