newsgroups = more rare stuff or not ?

[cinephilia]

Umm.. "whoever" can upload to Usenet as well. There is plenty of shady content on Usenet.

ALOT less then torrents by 99%, and all that "shady" posts your talking about rarely gets indexed by sites like this one

thanks for the laugh.

[Radon0r]

thanks for the laugh.

+1

Shady content is spammed to multiple newsgroups on a daily basis. Torrents will never be able to compete with, let alone beat, the usenet when it comes to such filth.

[Hypatia]

With experience you learn how to avoid "shady" content pretty efficiently even using simple indexers.And its a good experience. Manual indexers miss lots of stuff posted out there

[Funkin']

I agree with your testimonial DDL forums are the best for rare files/applications.. From what i discovered last days BT more or less equals with usenet material.

That was my conclusion too. I dig Usenet more though because it has better security and guaranteed speeds(but of course it costs).

[Disme]

ALOT less then torrents by 99%, and all that "shady" posts your talking about rarely gets indexed by sites like this one

thanks for the laugh.

You should go through his post-history ... he's a truly gifted stand-up comedian

[Funkin']

Come on now guys. No reason to bash justdose just because he obviously doesn't know a lot about BT.

[filedud]

Umm.. "whoever" can upload to Usenet as well. There is plenty of shady content on Usenet.

ALOT less then torrents by 99%, and all that "shady" posts your talking about rarely gets indexed by sites like this one

I (seriously) have found it to be just the opposite. Torrent downloads usually take longer to d/l but (I have found) are of better quality while Usenet d/ls are much faster but are of less reliable quality.

[kton25]

I use BT and Usenet. A good tracker will have good speeds/content. Usenet will always have good speeds but limited retention and varying quality content. Try one of the free usenet trials and see for yourself.

[Malcontent]

Usenet will always have good speeds but limited retention and varying quality content.

Several Usenet providers have around 850+ days of retention and is growing. How it that limited? A lot of the content found on torrents is the same that is on usenet. The same tv shows and movies, games.

[iLOVENZB]

ALOT less then torrents by 99%, and all that "shady" posts your talking about rarely gets indexed by sites like this one

I (seriously) have found it to be just the opposite. Torrent downloads usually take longer to d/l but (I have found) are of better quality while Usenet d/ls are much faster but are of less reliable quality.

What? Download apples from Usenet and not oranges.