Blocknews - 100 gig usenet block for $8.99 deal

[cola]

Anyone remotely interested in a good block account or even just usenet should jump on it.

[sandman_1]

Too late, they are all gone like a week or two ago.

[Skiz]

I just have to post back and say that I've found this to be a complete waste of money. I've never needed a block account in the years I've been using Usenet but I thought with some of the changes coming forth with my ISP that it might be a good idea to get one. I tried using the block account for the very first time tonight to fill in some articles missing from all of the episodes of the first season of Boardwalk Empire.

Generally speaking, Blocknews doesn't have anything I need and their 1100+ days of advertised retention is nonsense. I'm onto the fourth episode I need blocks for, and while Blocknews has had some articles, I have not been able to grab enough to complete any of these episodes.

My immediate impression is this was a total waste of ten bucks.

[A_T]

I just have to post back and say that I've found this to be a complete waste of money. I've never needed a block account in the years I've been using Usenet but I thought with some of the changes coming forth with my ISP that it might be a good idea to get one. I tried using the block account for the very first time tonight to fill in some articles missing from all of the episodes of the first season of Boardwalk Empire.

Generally speaking, Blocknews doesn't have anything I need and their 1100+ days of advertised retention is nonsense. I'm onto the fourth episode I need blocks for, and while Blocknews has had some articles, I have not been able to grab enough to complete any of these episodes.

My immediate impression is this was a total waste of ten bucks.

Who is your main usenet provider could be the same that feeds Blocknews.

[hdjunky]

I just have to post back and say that I've found this to be a complete waste of money. I've never needed a block account in the years I've been using Usenet but I thought with some of the changes coming forth with my ISP that it might be a good idea to get one. I tried using the block account for the very first time tonight to fill in some articles missing from all of the episodes of the first season of Boardwalk Empire.

Generally speaking, Blocknews doesn't have anything I need and their 1100+ days of advertised retention is nonsense. I'm onto the fourth episode I need blocks for, and while Blocknews has had some articles, I have not been able to grab enough to complete any of these episodes.

My immediate impression is this was a total waste of ten bucks.

Aren't you the rabid giganews fan boy? Obviously whateve you are using is no better if you have to turn to backup servers so I don't know why you would single out just blocknews when you even said they did hve at least a few articles you didn't. That would tell me they are at least as good or a tiny bit better wouldn't it? ;-)

I know they were there when I grabbed them sometime ago...which release did you get? I got the immerse releases way back and they worked fine.

[zot]

I tried using the block account for the very first time tonight to fill in some articles missing from all of the episodes of the first season of Boardwalk Empire.

Generally speaking, Blocknews doesn't have anything I need ... I'm onto the fourth episode I need blocks for, and while Blocknews has had some articles, I have not been able to grab enough to complete any of these episodes.

Are you saying that all of the episodes you downloaded are so incomplete (on both servers combined) that even PARs won't fix them?

It never hurts to post some hard evidence. Here is a sample 315 day old release of Boardwalk Empire's first season, first episode:

[47089]-[FULL]-[#a.b.teevee@EFNet]-[ Boardwalk.Empire.S01E01.iNTERNAL.720p.HDTV.x264-SYS ]

and using SuperNZB, its completion checked on Blocknews (US server):

http://i39.tinypic.com/2873hpv.jpg

Not a perfect score, but I think probably MUCH better completion than Giganews on this release, and I'm guessing that these incompletes are different (random) missing articles, compared to Giganews' typical (and predictable) DMCA-takedown pattern.

So assuming that no upload errors occurred when the files were being posted (which would affect completion everywhere) using Blocknews as a fill for Giganews should add up to virtually-100% completion.

their 1100+ days of advertised retention is nonsense.

Would you care to back up that statement with some actual facts?
No? OK, so maybe I'll have to provide some of my own then.
Here's a sample 1168 day old file (near Binsearch's limit) in a.b.mp3.audiobook -- still on the server:

http://binsearch.info/?b=Janet+Dailey_Something+More&g=alt.binaries.mp3.audiobooks&p=nic88%40verizon.net+%28bjgeiger%29&max=250

The ball's in your court, Skizo

[Hypatia]

well.. i dunno about blocknews.. but i ve just checked 334 days posts(the whole first season of BE) on AW
here are results:

Spoiler: Show

But i must say that AW is having completion problems between ~120-260+ days due to their technical fuck ups i guess. But at least hbo shows are not gunned down by mafia

[Skiz]

Are you saying that all of the episodes you downloaded are so incomplete (on both servers combined) that even PARs won't fix them? It never hurts to post some hard evidence.

That's what I'm finding, yes. Mainly because Blocknews has nothing. For example, trying to complete S01E04, Blocknews has 1 article. Everything else in the collection turns up as 'Article Not Found'. E05? Blocknews had 2 articles. Etc...

Not a perfect score, but I think probably MUCH better completion than Giganews on this release, and I'm guessing that these incompletes are different (random) missing articles, compared to Giganews' typical (and predictable) DMCA-takedown pattern.

I can't see whatever image you've posted.

Giganews has completed most of the collection. As stated, Blocknews could not offer enough to complete, and certainly was not "better than Giganews".


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[Hypatia]

trying to complete S01E04, Blocknews has 1 article.

huh? do you mean only 1 article for the whole episode is available on BN?

Then what does the picture you posted above show? giganews? im a bit lost

[Skiz]

trying to complete S01E04, Blocknews has 1 article.

huh? do you mean only 1 article for the whole episode is available on BN?

Then what does the picture you posted above show? giganews? im a bit lost

Yes, for S01E04, Blocknews had 1 part. For S01E05, Blocknews had 2 parts. All the others came up as 'Article not found'.

The above screen is what Giganews was able to complete on it's own.