[Tutorial] Usenet/Newsgroups - How Do I Access & Use It?

Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:08 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

yu have to pay!

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

wow not everything on the net is for free Suprise

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I am finally in and using abmj !! This is great! dance

Thank you so much for the helpful tips.

I've been so Mr. Green

One question. Is there usually a limit from ones server on the download bandwith with newsgroups? I am getting a download speed of 20k. I have a 3 megabit connection.

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject: It is up to Post Rating: 0

How do you access to newsgroups?
Through your ISP's free server?
....Then, most likely, your ISP caps speed.
(Relatively slower than those of Commercial servers)

If you signed up with commercial servers, like
Easynews, Giganews, Usenetserver, Astraweb, Newshosting,
you will find caps in FAQ.
ex
http://www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html

One note: If you upload something from your ISP's freeservers,
you should know that everyone knows about you:
What newsreader are you using?
How are you accessing to this particular newsgroup?
What is your IP address?

ex
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.multimedia.japanese
Subject: Re: Dustimage_zebra -- Many thanks
Organization: -
Message-ID: xxxxx
References: xxxx
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 8
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:41:52 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.43.123.xxx----Here!

If you use commercial servers,
From: xxxx
References: <xxx
Organization: xxxx
Message-ID: xxxxx
User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25
X-No-Archive: yes
Lines: 1
X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com
X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly.
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:20:41 GMT

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I am using my ISP's free server. It makes sense that they cap the download since I pay nothing extra for the access. Thanks for the extra tips!! wow Big Smile

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject: Who is your... Post Rating: 0

Who is your ISP?
NY means what? TimeWarner? Optonline?

Did you say hello in abmj? (Welcomes to abmj)
Currently I'm downloading Watashi wo Ryokan ni Tsuretete VCD 1 C-Sub
(FK is posting)

If you go to a.b.dvd, you shall find "The Grudge 2004" iso.
I am at THE_GRUDGE.part063.rar. Maybe another 20 more rars
to finish.

Other places of interests for DVD iso
alt.binaries.dvd.anime
alt.binaries.dvd.asian
alt.binaries.dvd (dvdr dvd-r dvdrs)

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:20 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Due to excessive spam occurances in the ABMJ/ABMJR and many many other news groups by mainly russian posters who post kiddiePr0n we have (Groink, AP, and others, my self included) come to an agreement that an update of the FAQ was needed.

The section 9 L has now been added, discussing how to filter JPG files and other undesirable elements, and the indexing of the entire FAQ has changed.

Also the entire HTML layout has been given a major update to a more clean look and I dropped in a new top graphic too.

If you want to know how ABMJ and ABMJR work, then download this file, extract and read it. It may prove useful in other groups as well and will give you a nice crash course in how to surf the news in a nice manner.

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:25 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:31 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:52 am Post subject: For Reference Post Rating: 0

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

Above is the best souce I've so far encountered with, if you want to learn Newsgroup (Treasure box of every sort of genre) It even covers NZB files.
There are two ways commonly used to gain access to a news server:
1. Use the news server maintained by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
2. Pay for news server access.
As your ISP does not wish to advertise this service, it might be hidden
under Help/about of ISP's web page portal. (They want you to surf web pages and do occasional emails only to save their bandwidth.)

1. Intro
2. News Servers
3. Newsreaders
4. Newsgroups
5. RAR files
6. PAR & PAR2 files
7. Identifying a Post
8. Posting
9. NZB Files
10. Tips
11. Guide Updates

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:55 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I am getting an error message and am not sure what it means. I have reloaded my computer and have left xnews off overnight. I can open thread list, but cannot grab binaries.

Can anyone assist?

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

this is a server side error, no problem on your end. 4xx errors are considered non-fatal errors and your news client should be re-trying to make an connection to the server. if it isn't, check your settings. idon't use xnews, so i can't tell you where to look.

the cause of the 400 error is that the newsserver only allows x number of connections to the server, and when that limit is reached other connections are refused. this is a common problem where isp's outsource thier news services. you can tell by looking into a header of one your posts, or the name of the newsserver might tell you.

ap

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Thanks for the info ap. I was worried that I did something. Unsure

It seems to have been temporary. I am back in. Big Smile

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject: 2 connections Post Rating: 0

2 Connections is normal.
What it means is that if you are downloading 2 files and then
you tried to retrieve headers, it becomes 3. So retrieve header
function dies (as in Server Connection failed. 2 connections/node)

How about commercial servers?
ex (Copy and paste from one of commercial servers' FAQ)
3. How many concurrent connections am I allowed?
Newshosting allows 8 connection from the same IP on our standard accounts. The unlimited accounts are limited to 4 connections from the same IP.