det427 Premium Member join:2004-01-31 Santa Rosa, CA |
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Re: Newsgroups the old school wayHow to Build Your Own Usenet Indexer » www.howtogeek.com/120285 ··· indexer/ |
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ExodusYour Daddy Premium Member join:2001-11-26 Earth |
Exodus
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2012-Dec-10 9:17 pm
This is the very guide I used. |
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90115534 (banned)Someone is sabotaging me.Finding out who join:2001-06-03 Kenner, LA |
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said by mythology:vcdq + binsearch.
Not sure if people are aware of this but Newsleecher has a feature called Supersearch. Type in what you are looking for and tada. The only thing I`ll miss from NZBmatrix is the comments BUT vcdq has a pretty decent comment section. You just have to find the files yourself. I use newsleecher supersearch as well because I get it for free Sorry can't say how. |
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67845017 (banned) join:2000-12-17 Naperville, IL
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said by darcilicious:said by Exodus:said by darcilicious:Who here was on Usenet back in the late 80s? Internet wasn't available in my area until 1992. Back in the 80s, there was this thing called UUCP that predated NNTP -- so a lot of us getting Usenet didn't have "Internet" either That was me back then--1989. uuencode/uudecode. Pain in the neck. |
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Bob4Account deleted join:2012-07-22 New Jersey |
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I found USENET posts of mine from 1994. Back when I had a CompuServe numerical email address. |
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said by 67845017:That was me back then--1989. uuencode/uudecode. Pain in the neck. Back in the late eighties, I remember using the company's 2400 modem that was connected to a VAX/VMS system. I could use my AT286 PC DOS machine and send commands to retrieve pages (in my email account) of text coming from something new back then: the worldwide web. |
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darciliciousCyber Librarian Premium Member join:2001-01-02 Forest Grove, OR ·Ziply Fiber
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said by synchron:said by 67845017:That was me back then--1989. uuencode/uudecode. Pain in the neck. Back in the late eighties, I remember using the company's 2400 modem that was connected to a VAX/VMS system. I could use my AT286 PC DOS machine and send commands to retrieve pages (in my email account) of text coming from something new back then: the worldwide web. Either you mean the "internet" (for the late 80s) or you mean the early 90s for the web... |
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Babar Premium Member join:2001-05-09 Washington
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2012-Dec-15 2:03 am
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said by Bob4:...Back when I had a CompuServe numerical email address. OMG - the instant I read that my CompuServe number flashed through my brain - with the comma in the right place and everything! Ouch! |
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OK, might have been early 90's but definitely prior to Windows 2 and 3.1. Back then, i was having much more fun with my Atari ST and connecting to text based midi/music newsgroups via GEnie BBS. |
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darciliciousCyber Librarian Premium Member join:2001-01-02 Forest Grove, OR 1 edit |
I can't say much about the timeline wrt to Windows as I was a SunOS and VAX/VMS girl back then |
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Bichon MVM join:2002-10-10 Freehold, NJ |
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I found USENET posts of mine from 1984, just by doing a Google search of my old UUCP address. Back in those days, one didn't sign up with an NSP - instead one would install software (we used B news) on a Unix server and be pushed copies of every single post from their upstream provider. NNTP hadn't been invented yet; to participate in USENET one would login to a server that had the feed, and use newsreader software like "rn" to read and post. When a colleague and I first put up USENET at our site, it was possible to download an entire newsfeed of everything that was posted that day with a 1200 baud modem. By 1986, news volume had increased to the point where we needed to install a high-end Telebit Trailblazer modem capable of speeds of up to 18.4 kilobits/sec. running nearly 24 hours a day to get it all.
No binaries at all in those days; that didn't happen until the alt.* newsgroups came around in 1987-88. |
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darciliciousCyber Librarian Premium Member join:2001-01-02 Forest Grove, OR ·Ziply Fiber
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Those were the days! I didn't get on board until late 86 or early 87 when a co-worker said, hey, "enter ' rrn' sometime" and opened up a whole new world for me. |
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Bob4Account deleted join:2012-07-22 New Jersey
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Bob4
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2012-Dec-16 12:16 pm
Back before web forums killed newsgroups. |
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