GrabIt & NewsGroups Help?

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SeanM

Member
Hi, I'm new to the world of downloading newsgroups and having a bit of trouble. Just for your information my ISP is Virgin Media. I think I have set GrabIt up correctly and have been using Newzleech.com to search for nbz files. Which I think are all binary on that site?! Could be wrong.
Anyway when I try to download certain files all I get is "article not found". Is this something to do with the age of the files and my ISP not retaining them for more than however many days? If this is the case is there anything I can do about it? Or if it is not the case where am I going wrong?

Apologies if I am being stupid, like I mentioned earlier I am a complete newb to newsgroups.

Any help on this would be much appreciated and any newsgroups help in general lol.

Thanks
 
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jazzfan

New member
An nzb is just a listing of all the parts/files in a particular posting so if you click on it and you've linked Grabit to nzb files, it will try to open it. It will prompt you once the nzb is downloaded if you want to download the files in that nzb. If it then can't find the files then it's most likely that your usenet provider doesn't have them, either because they don't carry the group that they're posted to or because they're too old. Some providers now carry almost all active groups (there's no point in the ones that brag about 70,000 groups since few of them are active) and some now retain articles for 280 days to a year or more. Check your usenet provider for their retention period and see if that exceeds the age of the article as shown on newzleech.com.

One option is to subscribe to the group that has that article and then look for it manually, or just use Grabit search to locate the article or file you want. Grabit may still show the article as being available even if you can't get it from your provider, though.

There are sites that specialize in posting nzb's of files, such as nzbmatrix.com and others. Some are just summariing articles already on usenet, some are new postings of files. In general usenet is far more secure than torrent downloads and is much faster as well.
 
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