Spudz777 said:
My problem with usenet is usenet itself. I gave it a go, and got several useful things out of it, but it wasn't worth the hassle, even after the initial learning curve. As a totally separate issue, if I'm going to have to pay someone for Adywan's work, why should it be some random corporation instead of Adywan himself?
For the record, I have donated more to Adywan than it would have cost for me to get usenet access for the releases I'm interested in. I make no demands regarding buses or strippers, just a simple request that someone provide the release in the format requested by 50% of the members in Moth3r's recent survey (as opposed to 12.5% who requested usenet). I don't think that's unreasonable, as Adywan, while expressing his personal disinterest in torrents, has never said he doesn't want people doing it.
If it becomes clear that usenet is the only way to get Adywan's releases, I guess I'll have to suck it up and deal with the crappy interface, the corrupted downloads, the wasted disk space, and the fact that I'm paying someone else for Adywan's work, but I'd much rather send another fiver Adywan's way.
you know I used to feel exactly the same way you do,it took me forever before I liked usenet,and I HATED it for the same reasons you do,but now that I learned it and found the "right" software for me,now I really like it,it is a GREAT alternative to torrents,and NO SEEDING BS!,and no worrying about those idiot hit and runners,sure $25 is kind of alot of money I hues,but 110 GB's is ALOT of stuff,it would get you ALL Ady's releases and a TON more,Segaflip the KING of usenet helped me get setup,if you decide to give usenet a shot again,PM me and I will give you help,I have helped out others and now they think it is pretty damn easy to,once you have the Astraweb acct.,all you do is load that info into Grabit,then goto binsearch or newzleech and download the .nzb file(which to me is just like a torrent LOL)load that .nzb into Grabit and wallah,you are grabing Ady's fabulous file.
but like I said,if you give it a go again,PM me and I will gladly help you out,I started my download of this little over 4 hours ago and I have it already.
and yes 2 files were incomplete,but QuikPar fixed it in a jiffy,the Par files are right there in the download,so no extra downing.
all you need is this:
Astraweb acct.,Grabit,Quikpar,Winrar.