does anyone here no how to use them newsgroups. i just got some program called newsbin and i know your suppost to some how go to newzbin.com to download everything. but its all so damn confusing. anyone know anything about this, can you please help me or suggest some other way of getting music, movies, software, etc. besides a filesharing program.

your ISP usually has newsgroups, look it up on their site or call them. For Adelphia here, the NNTP server address is just "nntp" and you log on with your Adelphia user name. You can get external newsgroups, but you have to pay.

yeah you dont need to goto any website to download anything

all you need to do is find out if your ISP hosts newsgroups, then you just have to find the server, and enter it into the server part in newsbin.

once you have that, you can search all the newsgroups. Probably the easiest wat to find what you want is to goto a site that lets you search for titles or types such as movies.

i dont have a site for you at the moment though because my computer with the link is in another city.

well my isp newsgroup is newzbin.. i just have no idea in hell how it works..all the movies r split up and the whole damn thing is just so damn goofy.

..... to be honest I wouldn't really use a news group cos last time I was in one they spammed my email with crap.....

doesnt even look like my isp has a ng server

your isps newsgroup server is newsbin?? that is strange.


yeah for downloading movies and junk, you have to download all the parts, because in a newsgroup, there is a maximum amount of lines that a post can have, and so when it exceeds that it needs t be split up. Thats why movies are split up, because the max lines comes out to around 16mb. so you have to download all the zipped files for a movie, and just run the winzip or whatever. Sometimes there is an incomplete piece or a missing file needed to unzip, and thats what the PAR files are for. They repair the files and replace any missing or corrupt information.

yea i guess i dont like newsgroups then cause im not gonna bother trying to find 10 diffrent files for 1 movie...i would like to use a file sharin program cause those are easy to use..but everytime i use one my computer (i used kazza and limewire) ends up gettin alot of spyware and viruses and then ill have to restore it..anyone no any filesharing programs that wont fuck up my computer..

i like DC++, but you need to be willing to share on there, and have plenty of stuff to share (in excess of 10gb, the more the better).