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22 January 2003, 23:36
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Cable Buyer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Big Lake, USA
Age: 52
Posts: 123
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More newsgroup fun
Tosec Amiga CD32 and CDTV flood in alt.binaries.emulators.misc
These were posted two days ago, sorry for the late news. |
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23 January 2003, 15:38
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Cable Buyer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Big Lake, USA
Age: 52
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No.
But if you find one, let me know. |
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23 January 2003, 16:11
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: The Streets
Age: 39
Posts: 2,731
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It appears to be too late to grab 'em now.......
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23 January 2003, 17:14
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Long time member
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Location: UK
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Yep Im with BtBroadband and their retention appears to be about an hour
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23 January 2003, 17:37
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Denmark
Posts: 2,284
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My ISP's retention seem to be 4 days, all of them with 20% completance.
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23 January 2003, 19:42
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Cable Buyer
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Location: Big Lake, USA
Age: 52
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There is something to be said about premium news servers.
One thing I failed to mention about "free" news servers is that they sometimes have a bandwidth cap and their retention is low, as well as their usual adamant refusal to carry binary news groups. It took me most of the night to download all of the posted games on my DSL line. Had my server capped me or retired the posts before the sun came up, I would have wasted my time and my clock cycles for nothing. However, if you are serious about getting binary files, I can't argue strongly enough for the news groups through a premium server.. One great thing is that you can "lurk" and get files without ever having to post or (in a lot of cases) beg... It is like a cascade of bytes without the diplomatic bullshit that one would find in IRC or the FTP scene. (imho). I find that anonymity (SP, I know) is a huge benefit in tracking down files... One downside is that you have to be patient. If you are lurking in ABEM and are waiting for the latest TOSEC flood, it may be a few days instead of having the instant gratification that IRC or FTPs can offer. Another is the retention time on your server... Which I already kinda brushed on. |
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24 January 2003, 00:00
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Old Luny
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brazil
Age: 53
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I would not call the endless queues in IRC "instant gratification". And what I love most in my News Premium Server is its 34 days of retention time... I never worry about losing files, they are always there waiting to be downloaded... THAT *IS* instant gratification!!!
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24 January 2003, 03:47
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Cable Buyer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Big Lake, USA
Age: 52
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That's wonderful.
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25 January 2003, 00:59
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: UK
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Which provider is that, Fissuras? Does it hold all groups for that long? Sounds pretty impressive.
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25 January 2003, 11:35
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Old Luny
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brazil
Age: 53
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Easynews!!!!!!! All binaries groups I ever tried had 30-36 retention time trough their Web interface, which is great and by far superior than any newsreader. it is too easy to find and download files using any download manager...
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