Just a heads up for those that don’t know aboutusenet
Lots of good stuff gets posted there for all to leech, (I heard some 3 TB’s per day gets uploaded if you counted all the groups)
uploading is good but not required so just help yourself to downloads that you want
Usenet has been around for ages and it is still a good way to distribute files in many ways but can be a bit more confusing to begin than P2P & may not be good for everyone.
upside
1, you only have to upload once then we all download from our newservers cache
2, people can start downloading pieces before you have even finished sending up
3, paid services that don’t have logging are to some degree anon
downside
1, things don’t get archived for very long
2, most isp’s don’t allow posting cause it’s traceable and they get complaints. (gotta get a proper paid service for that)
3, some people’s isp’s don’t offer this service or it is so limited or slow as to be unuseable
I recommend Grabit for a good free nzb complatible multi-threaded newsreader for …