Newsgroups speeds?

[markcope]

blinding speed, amazing content, no ratio conflicts...should actually be telling you NOT to use them...just in case they get too popular & noticed...actually they only have 1 downside...getting enough drivespace to keep up the with the downloads...............

[MbX]

I doubt newsgroups will ever gain as much popularity as other p2p technologies. Napster-clones and to some extent bittorrent are idiot-friendly. You just point, click, search, and download any file you want. Newsgroups are the thinking man's file sharing network. That is changing, however, with the recent popularity of NZBs which are the newsgroup equivalent of Torrent files. One hurdle holding back the freeloaders from ruining newsgroups for the rest of us is free access (or lack thereof). Many leechers don't want to pay for the blazzing speeds you get by subscribing to premium news sevices.. their loss our gain.