What is alt.********.**.*****.****? How do I access it?


alt.********.**.*****.**** is a News-Group. To acess this News-Group contact your ISP "Internet Service Provider" and ask them for your local News-Server which should be something like news.central.comcast.net. Once you have you News-Server download a prgram called GrabIt, which can be found here http://www.shemes.com/grabit/. When you first run this program for the first time it will ask you to enter your News-Server which in my case would be news.central.comcast.net. Then Click O.K. Next click on "All Groups" and then click on "Update List". Then after this is done their should be a list of all the News-Groups, scroll down till you reach alt.whatever.whatever then right click,subscribe. Then highlight the group on the Left Hand Side and click on "Update Group". To download them right click on the file and click on GrabIt. If you would like to watch your files download click on "Batch".

NOTE: There are alot of other News Programs you can use to download stuff. GrabIt is what I think is personally the best though. GOOD LUCK!


MOD EDIT: Removed all potential for piracy. General newsgroup FAQ.

I was on there last night, I use agent news reader. I think I'll try grabit when I get home tonight. I want something that downloads as easily and has a queue like flashfxp. I hate haveing to download all attachments and then save each file into my directories. Agent is good at seaching, but not sorting or downloading.

I personally feel that Agent NewsReader is the best. You can read about and download it here.

Why is GrabIt decoding my Binaries into txt files?


Ive been getting quite a few PM's latly saying that GrabIt is decoding your binaries into txt files. I dont know why this is. I and 80% of people that download binaries with GrabIt dont have a problem. Its not a Mime issue or anything like that, its just a very very very strange Bug. The solution to this problem is to go download XNews or Newsbin.
(Im sorry for anyone who had these issues, if I would knew about them I would of said that at first. But im one who hasnt had a single problem with GrabIt. (Thats why I recommended it)

http://newsbin.com/ (Newsbin)

http://xnews.newsguy.com/ (XNews)

Understand I think that using this tutorial to download Xbox games is Illegal (Piracy). If anyone at all has a problem with it I will delete it A.S.A.P. (This includes XanTium,Syrus,and all the X-S Mods, and offcourse MS. Enjoy Your Day.

What are .PAR files? (Tut 3) Addon 2


What are .PAR files? Par files are files that RECOVER Missing, Corrupted, or Incomplete .RAR Files. To use the .PAR files you will need to download a program called "SmartPar". The .RAR files must be in the same directory as the .PAR files are. Click on anyone of the .PAR files and SmartPar will popup and start checking all the files. If a file is Corrupt, Missing, or Incomplete (After its dont checking all the files in the set) it will automatically start Recovering the files.


Dont ask me how it works, because I dont know. The only thing I know is that they work.

.....NewsGroup Information.....

for releases NFOnews
for a newsgroup reader use Newsbin Pro

Good Work LumbraX

Why cant I find alt.********.**.*****.**** on my NewsSever?


Well sad to say, this normally means that your ISP (NewsServer) has blocked access to alt.********.**.*****.****. You could always pay for a Newserver though, such as EasyNews and the others out their. If your using GrabIt and you cant find it though, dont give up, download XNews or Newsbin and see if it appears in their. (GrabIt is nicest looking, doesnt mean its stablist though)


Just look hard and then harder before you give up though. ::

Need anymore help?


If you need anymore help just PM me.


Please check the whole FAQ and Search the forum though before you PM me. I get alot of PM's aday and sometimes it gets annoying when people ask questions that have been answered 1000's and 1000's of times.

(If you want to say Thank You to me for this InFamous Tut feel free to PM me) HEhE

My isp must have blocked that news group because it does not show - however you can use a filter in Grabit so I told it to show all the groups with Xbox in it. There are loads of them

does it have to be your own isps newsgroup, couldnt i just copy someone elses as i doubt very much my isp has a newsgroup.

Thank You for editing it Xeero, :-)

For Some reason Grab it gives me an authentication error. Other programs like Xnews work fine. I like Grab it because its simple to use. Any ideas why grabit gives this prob?

Nope Sh0wty Not a Clue...



Now for people to know, I do NOT!!! have access to a newserver anymore. So I cannot support this FAQ/Tutorial anymore. Please ask someone else.

We moved to Lakeland Florida and the newserver here sucks and isnt useable and they dont like me cause im black.

Does anyone know how those trial news-servers work? How much can I download for free? And for how long time? Do I need a Credit-card?

Id like to add a tad bit, LumbraX...
how pars work:
pars are basically just using the theory of a+b=c
with any two parts, you can find out the whole..
so C-b=a and c-a=b...
Oh, and if this wasnt already added, 1 par = 1 rar, 2 par = 2 rar and so on...

If anyone finds that they're isps news server sucks, they just don't have one, and what not, you can go here: http://freenews.maxbaud.net/ they have hundreds of free news servers listed. just copy the server name into whatever program you use. I'm suprised no one's posted anything like this yet.

FS-raid ia a good par program to use and easy

QUOTE (LumbraX @ Mar 9 2003, 12:15 AM)

Why is GrabIt decoding my Binaries into txt files? Ive been getting quite a few PM's latly saying that GrabIt is decoding your binaries into txt files. I dont know why this is. I and 80% of people that download binaries with GrabIt dont have a problem. Its not a Mime issue or anything like that, its just a very very very strange Bug. The solution to this problem is to go download XNews or Newsbin. (Im sorry for anyone who had these issues, if I would knew about them I would of said that at first. But im one who hasnt had a single problem with GrabIt. (Thats why I recommended it)

I found the solution to this in the GrabIt FAQ:

QUOTE

yEnc files are saved as .txt files This problem is caused (by the program used) by the poster. An yEnc file should have a specific subjectline: the filename should have quotes ("") and the word yEnc should be in it. If these rules are not followed grabit won't recognize the yEnc file and it will be saved as .txt       You can still decode the files by using an yEnc decoder: for example ydec which can be downloaded here     Files are saved as .txt files (not yEnc) If it's saved as txt files, grabit couldn't decode it. these are usually MIME posts. you can decode them using an external decoder. For example Fastcode32

FAQ: Missing/Incomplete binaries

If you usually cannot download software from binaries groups due to missing sections, your local ISP may be expiring large binaries very quickly.

When you look for something you may find a bunch of parts missing because those parts arrived earlier, and were quickly deleted (within 24 hours) to make room for the next big files coming in.

In this situation, you need a news server with a very long retention time, that will hold all posts for at least a week or two after posting, no matter how big they are.


To get a really long retention time, you'll end up having to go with a commercial news server that requires a subscription. Some examples:

SuperNews

EasyNews

1Usenet


Or for a huge selection of News providers, just go here:

http://www.usenet-provider.com/

FAQ: On usenet, email is forever!

If you'd like spam that just never ever goes away, merely post something on usenet with your real email address.

You may not be aware of this, but most non-binary groups are archived by Google (and originally by Deja-News and others). Any message that has ever been posted since about 1981 can probably be found searching Google Groups:

Post from Feb 4, 1982 on Google groups

Be very careful to never use a "real" email address or phone number on Usenet, or that email account will be haunted by neverending spam, pretty much forever.

To search the newsgroups use www.newzbin.com

Where is there a 100gb cache?? What happens when this is up??