Are Newsgroups "Safe" From "Them"?

[DanB]

Feck Sake BD, cot again.

Shut it, DaniellaB.

[Master$hake]

well the title is good, kinda got off topic though, but the idea is interesting "are newsgroups "safe" from them. Well I have an answer for ya, no they are not, the reason newsgroups themselves are not under attack because they are registered only as transfer servers and are not responsible for the data contained on them, similar to an IRC server not being held responsible for the data being transfered through them. News servers are also set up similar to IRC servers where when you connect to one server you are getting access to "pretty much" all of the same data on all other server located around the world. That and since Usenet or NNTP predates the Internet it is not subject to the same laws as newer technology. That explained the only ones that can be held responsible for copyright infringement on news servers is the posters, its simple don't wanna get ought don't post downloading or "leeching" in the newsgroup community is safe as long as your not downloading anything super illegal or downloading ridiculous amounts of data, the only ones who would really pay attention to your newsgroup activity is your ISP like all Internet use or any other communication going through your ISP they can watch it if need be, fortunately it is impossible to watch that much traffic mostly for cost reasons. Simply don't give them a reason to flag you and watch your traffic. This can be avoided by signing up with a news server that offers secure tunneling with ssl encryption. This encrypts the connection from your computers to the news server, in essence creates an unreadable tunnel by anyone but your news server and you.
Of course the ammount of data on a news server is immense, with enough searching or to make it easy on yourself "BUY" and I mean that it doesn't work unless you buy it is newsleecher it has a super search feature that will allow you to search the entirety of your news server for files that you request and then you can search within your search results, its really very easy its like searching with google only you actually find stuff you want and its actually there to download. Newzbin and most other news search engines suck because they either only search one group and only report files that have been verified or two wich is newzbins case only reports files in the search engine that were created and posted with a .nzb file wich is severely limiting the terabytes about 46 terabytes on my server to be searched. With my comcast account I can download about 40-50 gig worth of data in a weekend. If you don't wanna do any reading and learn how to use newsgroups I would suggest newsleecher with its super search function. Also Its a good idea to find a news server with unlimited downloads so you don't have to watch out for that shit usenetserver.com is a great newserver with unlimited downloads, and from what I hear they have an ssl packages on the way.
Well I hope this helped at least someone, and didn't confuse the fuck out of everyone else.
Oh yea the thread starter, you did sound like a brat

[Smith]

Could someone explain to me what a nbz file is? :newb:

[Master$hake]

nzb is a file for a site called www.newzbin.com you can search that site and you can download the nzb file. Then if you have a newsreader that supports nzb files when you open the small nzb file on your computer your newsreader will start downloading all the parts for the file you want. Pretty cool huh, you don't have to subscribe to any groups or search through any groups, just grab the nzb file and it will take care of the rest, I know newsleecher will handle nzb files but i'm not sure what other clients do. www.newzbin.com doesn't host any of the files it just hosts the nzb files. Think of them like torrents for newsgroups if that helps any.
But if you were just being an asshole about my typo, well then fuck off prick and go find somthing else to do.

[Smith]

Thanks mastershake, ill try this out

[MCHeshPants420]

Thanks mastershake, ill try this out

Please tell me you are referring to his latter statement.

[JPaul]

nzb files = the equivelant of "verifieds", for usenet.

@ Master$hake. The former of your 2 posts may have been very interesting / useful. However it was also practically unreadable.

Punctuation is there for a reason. You don't have to use it as an exact science, but you really do have to use some.

[manker]

Punctuation is there for a reason. You don't have to use it as an exact science,

[JPaul]

Punctuation is there for a reason. You don't have to use it as an exact science,

For clarification and so as not to upset manger, the "you" refers to ShakeMaster and no-on else.

All better now, diddums.

[Master$hake]

nzb files = the equivelant of "verifieds", for usenet.

@ Master$hake. The former of your 2 posts may have been very interesting / useful. However it was also practically unreadable.

Punctuation is there for a reason. You don't have to use it as an exact science, but you really do have to use some.

First of all there is very little verified when it comes to nzb files, if your talking about someone seeing it and saying hey theres an nzb file, well thats about it. If your talking about www.newzbin.com search site well those have been partially verified, not always I have found. An nzb file can be created by anyone and shared with anyone of your of your choosing, nothing verified about that.
Punctuation and spelling mean very little to the human brain, as long as the first and last letters are in the correct place thats all you really need to read a paragraph. Saying this one might guess you have trouble reading, or perhaps are to young to figure these things out.
See I can pick apart your post to, its easy anyone can do it. So why even bother making a statement like that, its meaningless, arragant, and makes you look like a stuck up prick.