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Cliff wrote in message ...
>"Peter D" <ple@se.ask> wrote on 25 Sep 2002
>
>> Cliff wrote in message ...
>>
>>>But more to the point Peter, where did you 'find' this movie. How
tough
>>>is it to find movies? I'm very curious.
>>
>> Glad to inform and educate. The alt.binaries.multimedia.* and
>> alt.bianries.movies.*  newsgroups are a good source for movies, TV
>> shows, documentaries, fancaps, and a lot of quality home-spun stuff.
>>
>> If you want to review the material there, I'd recommend not using a
>> program like Outlook Exress or the simple version of Agent. Instead
try
>> Newsbin Pro or Xnews. They are designed to dl binarie sand piece them
>> together. You'll also have to know how to use Winrar. ANd if you need
to
>> burn them, probably CDRwin, Nero, and assorted other proggies. It's a
>> lot of work, steep learning curve, but the benefits are often quite
>> surprising.
>>
>> "Just doing my part to piss of Hollywood and Don Bayomi"
>> --
>> Peter D
>>
>>
>>
>
>Thanks Peter. I'm okay with burning, rar files, iso images and the
like. I
>currently use xnews. Is newsbin pro enough of an improvement to give
that a
>try?

What I like about it
1. Multiple threads (term?). Basically, it can get message segments from
multiple servers. That increases the speed of the dowmloads. Sort of
like runnning four copies of Agent at once, each getting a part. It also
increases completion. If a message is in 50 parts and 1-49 are on your
server, and 2-50 are on another, it has the smarts to get the missing
peice form one or the other and completing the message. You can add as
many servers as you want to. If you subscribe to a premium service, you
can go with a cheaper account and just use it to get fills for stuff
missing on the free servers.

2. It has an oddometer that measures the downlads (headers, boides,
everything), so you can make sure you don't go over the limit on your
cable modem -- Shaw is getting very picky about this now.

3. You can tell it to skip incompletes until it completes them. But you
can show the incompletes to figure out what's missing, enable the
premium server and then get the headers agoin. It has the smarts to skip
the headers it has locally and just get the ones the premium server has
that you don't.

All in all a great prog for binaires.
HTH
--
Peter D

PS. I dunno if you are posting on the wpg group or can.legal, but if
wpg, can you remove can.legal 'cos it's gone off-topic for that group.
Thanks. :-)