1. Nope, read my post: NZBIndex is a free indexing site. The results were visible 'at a glance' by browsing. I wasn't browsing.
2. That's an argument for Alt.Binz to better support handling of pics. Headers don't even come into it.
3. The point ... well, you know.
4. This simply doesn't correspond with any reality I can actually recognise. Have you even tried using Alt.Binz for searching and browsing? If so, you'll know that you can search ALL the groups indexed by the sites with one button press. Not only that, but with Alt.Binz global search you can run the query in more than one engine at the same time. So you can go from a new installation to searching up to 200 days of retention across 99% of binary groups in exactly 10.34 seconds
. Try that with a new installation of a proggy that needs to download all the headers first. A week later ... dying hardrive, no doubt corrupt cache if Newsleecher is in any way involved, so you'd have to start again anyway.
5. Bandwidth, time, drive space & cpu cycles are not free. Nor is the cost to the NSP's of serving up terabytes of perfectly useless and redundant data to those who still haven't moved on from the past. We would all be better off if that wasted bandwidth could be dedicated to actually, you know,
downloading stuff.
6. We'll have to agree to disagree, then.