Why do people like Newzbin so much?

[Broken]

yeah - the watchdog facility can be pretty useful

if you're a Virgin Media customer in the UK, they have free server access - they state up to 7 days, but some people have reported up to 50 - and the speeds are pretty decent (no pr0n though)

No porn??
Then what's the point?

[Kasen]

Newzbin is great for n00bs if you don't know how to find files and for browsing. Everything is nicely categorised and there are lots of filters and search options. The big downside is a lot of good stuff gets missed plus you have to wait hours for reports to be confirmed by Editor Admins. With indexing sites you get updates usually under 15 mins and access to nzbs right away. If you stick solely to human edited sites you may get a bad impression of usenet as they only let you search a fraction of it.

So an idea is start off with a human edited site like newzbin, nzbmatrix, merlins-portal then go on to automated indexing sites like binsearch, newzleech once you know what you're doing.

[Beck38]

I have found stuff there that I didn't even know ever existed on some really strange named groups ... they have stuff there that you cant find anywhere else...

That's just silly. If it's on Usenet, search engines will have it.

Searching for... what? By filename? Certainly, if you already know the filename, then any search engine will retrieve it for you.

But what if the filename doesn't match what you think? Say, looking for Season 1 Disc 5 of some tv program dvd. Now, if the thing was posted as 'xxxxS1D5' or something like that, pretty darn simple. But what if the poster called it 'yyyyydiscxseasonk' then you're pretty much hosed. The Newzbin editor *hopefully* will have sucked it down, figured out what it was, and indexed it properly as 'Silly TV program, season 1, disc 5'.

That's what makes all the difference. Not every poster posts the 'proper' (whatever that is) title, in fact, a great number of them are pretty darned obtuse.

So, unless one wants to spend the time d/l'ing tons of junk trying to find out what the *heck* it is (I sure used to), it's a good resource. In fact, since they tightend up things with v3 and started requiring the editors to identify the video format of the listed files, one can really do some excellent searches slicing and dicing the listings.

I note a couple others echoed what I just said, and others kinda blew it off. But there is no 'standard' naming convention, far from it. And folks don't post in the most obvious of newsgroups for the material they are uploading.

It's a crapshoot. Newsbin narrows the odds down, sometimes a bit, sometimes a lot. They do miss a lot, and the other indexing sites miss the same (if not more) amount. That's why I d/l headers on a few 'select' newsgroups I've found to have a high incidence of (unindexed)'good stuff' to make it worthwhile.

[UsenetGuy]

Newzbin is great for n00bs if you don't know how to find files and for browsing. Everything is nicely categorised and there are lots of filters and search options. The big downside is a lot of good stuff gets missed plus you have to wait hours for reports to be confirmed by Editor Admins. With indexing sites you get updates usually under 15 mins and access to nzbs right away. If you stick solely to human edited sites you may get a bad impression of usenet as they only let you search a fraction of it.

So an idea is start off with a human edited site like newzbin, nzbmatrix, merlins-portal then go on to automated indexing sites like binsearch, newzleech once you know what you're doing.

Well, actually it has better and more search options than the free sites and has no advertisements. You said a lot of good stuff gets missed, well, yeah some good stuff is missed but that's in the reports. There is still a search option named Usenet where it searches a raw Usenet index, like other free sites, and its also updated every 15 minutes or so.. the reports are just an added benefit to make it easier. Also, you only have to wait for your reports to be verified when you first start reporting, after a while you don't. In my opinion, NewzBin is like the GigaNews of indexing sites.

So an idea is to get your information straight before you make a post like that.

[fastplumb]

I'm NOT a paying member of newzbin! but I am a member and have been since they started. I only look at there site to see whats been posted & available for downloading.
Don't forget newzbin has a sister site for porn newzxxx and even non paying members can D/L there NZBs.

[omgwtfbbq]

Newzbin is always my first port of call and it's definitely far better than the free sites thanks to reports. And if you don't want reports then it has the same 'raw' searching as the free sites.

[sharkuk]

Ive used newzbin since day one. Its an easy hassle free way of getting what you want. People say they miss things. Not one site has 100% of everything that gets posted. I ran out of credit a few days ago and have for the last few months been trying differnt sites to see of i can mix and match. Ive now got to use 3/4 sites to replace newzbin but there all free to use. Most things on newzbin get posted quickly but i have noticed before things being posted hours even days after they have been posted elsewhere. But im sure the same can be said for other such sites. Newzbin is a great site if you dont have much time to browse other sites.

[maddyks]

And I love the fact that it has RSS I can just search for what I want - for example, Heroes Season 3 - and set up an RSS. Anytime something gets posted up with that criteria, I get an update. Call me lazy

[51mmz0rz]

Can the newzbin RSS feeds be used in SABnzbd+ for automatic downloads? This is the main potential draw for me, as the only good NZB TV RSS feed I've found thus far is TvNZB.com.

[Skiz]

OK, so I tried Newzbin for a couple weeks and that was a waste of $2 or whatever it was.

It's pointless to pay for that service IMO.