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musicguy81
2005-09-29, 01:04 PM
How do you download from usenet?

ffooky
2005-09-29, 01:30 PM
You need a newsreader program and a news server (NNTP). Which operating system do you use ?

musicguy81
2005-09-29, 05:26 PM
Windows XP with SP2, ffooky.

ffooky
2005-09-30, 01:42 AM
In that case I hear good things about NewsLeecher (http://www.newsleecher.com/) and NewsBin Pro (http://www.newsbin.com/) but google "newsreader" and have a dig around. Your ISP may provide a news server but it'll probably be fairly crappy and this (http://www.anchordudes.com/) is a good place to investigate premium (paid for) servers. If you are going to use an ISP provided server you'll probably need QuickPar (http://www.quickpar.org.uk/).

wharfrat73
2005-09-30, 08:20 AM
Here are a couple of links/FAQs that you may find helpful.

http://www.help4newbies.fsnet.co.uk/

http://gdeadfaq.ctree.org/charter.htm

There's a helpful bunch of folks, including me, that will answer specific questions in the group called alt.binaries.gdead.d

Good luck

musicguy81
2005-10-01, 03:34 PM
Thanks, man.

http://www.help4newbies.fsnet.co.uk/ was really helpful.