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General => Leeching & Technical Problems => Topic started by: mikala on September 02, 2003, 10:14:03 pm

Title: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: mikala on September 02, 2003, 10:14:03 pm
Well another way to get Live-Evil releases is to get them from Usenet :)
For this you need 3 things :
a news grabber : Grabit (http://www.shemes.com/grabit/) for example under windows or Pan (http://pan.rebelbase.com/) under linux
Winrar 3.0: Winrar (http://www.rarsoft.com) (both for windows & linux )
Currently there is 2 type of par files  : .par  & .par2
for more info about the difference between this 2 types
u should check the official website (http://parchive.sourceforge.net/)
For the first generation of  par files u can use Fsraid (http://www.fluidstudios.com/fsraid.html) on a windows architecture , for linux you can use  Parchive (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/parchive/par-v1.1.tar.gz?download)
For the second generation currently u can try
Par2cmdline (http://parchive.sourceforge.net/#client_par2cmdline) under the both system or with a gui interface under windows QuickPar (http://parchive.sourceforge.net/#client_quickpar)
you can also use others news clients like Xnews (http://xnews.newsguy.com/) ,Newbin pro (http://www.newsbin.com/), Newsleecher (http://www.newsleecher.com), Agent (http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php) & my favourite one ubh (http://ubh.sourceforge.net[/URL) a perl script :D .
Here the example is based under Windows with Grabit & Fsraid
Well, here we go !
First you need to configure your nntp'server ,usually it's a news.ispname.tld for example here the nntp server is news.free.fr
( yeah i'm using a french nntp 'server :D )
(http://littleboboy.free.fr/grabit/conf.png)
you can set your pass & login to access to the nntp server too .
Now you need to update your news groups list & select your group :
(http://littleboboy.free.fr/grabit/group.png)
Classical groups are alt.binaries.anime & alt.binaries.multimedia.anime

Subcribe to one of them & update them:)

After that you can grab article from the nntp server :P
Here a exemple : 250Kb Png  (http://littleboboy.free.fr/grabit/grab.png)
After all you need to use winrar to uncompress the file,
In case of corrupts file u can use the par(2) corrector to correct the file :D .
Since 5 months i'm only posting par2 files , but some people still using par files .
Now why using newsgroups ?
1) it's fast , i mean as fast as you're fast usually :D because in a general way you are using your isp's nntp server .
2) there is no queue , all you need is to wait for the file (currently i'need ~2hours to post a 200Mb file ) & as i'm posting the file when we released them :D
But sometimes your isp 'nntp server is crapy ~.~ (blam your isp ) or doesn't offer access to binary newsgroups ... Then you need to use another nntp server ( usually you need to pay for it )
here is a list :
Claranews (http://www.claranews.com) <- i used it by the past it was quite stable with a nice retention ( the file stay around 10 days on the server :D )
EasyNews (http://www.easynews.com) maybe the most famous :D ( 30 days of retention )
TeraNews (http://www.teranews.com/)
For any question/request suchs as repost etc etc you can do it here(maybe not in this post :p ), on irc  #live-evil@irc.enterthegame.com (my nick is mikala) , using Jabber (http://www.jabber.org) a free & open source IM ( my ID is mikala@jabber.com ) .
That's all :)
Title: Re: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: KillJoy on September 22, 2004, 09:00:49 am
I personally love Grabit.   A very nice program, and if my ISP would let me get more than 5gb from Usenet a month for free it would be better.  Downloading over 1gb an hour rocks!
Title: Re: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: mikala on September 22, 2004, 12:44:50 pm
well in fact i'm now using nget (http://nget.sourceforge.net) .
Some links :
http://animeusenet.org/ && http://abma.x-maru.org/
Title: Re: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: angelan on November 15, 2004, 12:39:05 am
I just wanted to say.....

THANK YOU mikala!!!! You've introduced me to something wonderful and this...paired with IRC is making my life THAT much easier  [smiley=46249910.gif] i LOVE YOU!!!!  [smiley=biggrin.gif]
Title: Re: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: mikala on November 15, 2004, 11:35:36 pm
are you she ?
if not without offense i would say i'm not gay :o
if you're she you're welcome to send me sexy pics [:cupra]
Title: Re: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: angelan on November 15, 2004, 11:57:58 pm
looks the reflection in the monitor and checks gender symbol on the side.....yes i'm a she  [smiley=totozz.gif]

and no sexy pics for you! not unless we trade   [smiley=neo_xp.gif]
Title: Re: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: mikala on November 16, 2004, 01:16:56 am
 [smiley=46249910.gif]
Btw i was asking before sometimes we can't be really sure about that :D
Title: Re: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: pvssr on November 19, 2004, 12:29:16 pm
Is there any file grabber for windows / linux which can work behind socks proxy???
Plz help.

OOPS. I just realized i don't have an usenet account. I'm on a university network :(
Title: Re: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: Ericn84 on October 10, 2005, 01:59:13 am
A good news hosting company is http://www.newshosting.com it is $15 a month for unlimited download and currently the retention is roughly 35 days but they are working up to 50 days due to a new server upgrade. Once you learn newshosting you'll never want to go back to bittorrent ;D
Title: Re: Newsgroups/Usenet [A little Tutorial]
Post by: Galen on December 10, 2006, 01:14:51 pm
An index of the anime files posted to Usenet is at
http://animeusenet.org/
The anime usenet FAQ is here: http://abma.x-maru.org/

-Galen