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Alt.Binz (English) => Help => Topic started by: tempgal on July 25, 2009, 10:16:07 pm
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Hi --
I've been a Usenet enthusiast since 1996 but have always just used Outlook Express -- not that I haven't tried other news readers, but the sad truth is that I've never, in all those years, been able to get one working.
So here I have alt.binz, all configured, I think, according to the instructions, but nothing is happening. It says "connected" but I am not getting any headers. Have searched for several different things but not a one was found. Can't tell if my search is too esoteric and there is nothing or whether I am configured wrong.
Here is part of log. The rest of the other entries just say "connected" but there is nothing there. What is wrong?
[7/25/2009 4:01:07 PM] [Main] Alt.Binz 0.25.0 [27.09.2007] started.
[7/25/2009 4:01:07 PM] [Main] Windows Vista detected
[7/25/2009 4:01:07 PM] [Main] Download queue list ageing done in 0ms
[7/25/2009 4:01:07 PM] [Main] 0 items loaded into download history list in 0ms.
[7/25/2009 4:01:07 PM] [Main] 0 outdated items removed from download history list in 0ms.
[7/25/2009 4:01:08 PM] [T1] Hello
[7/25/2009 4:01:08 PM] [T2] Hello
[7/25/2009 4:01:08 PM] [T2] Connecting (public.teranews.com)
[7/25/2009 4:01:08 PM] [T1] Connecting (202.177.16.121)
[7/25/2009 4:01:09 PM] [T1] Connected (202.177.16.121)
[7/25/2009 4:01:20 PM] [T1] Connecting (202.177.16.121)
[7/25/2009 4:01:20 PM] [T1] Connected (202.177.16.121)
[7/25/2009 4:01:29 PM] [T2] Connected (public.teranews.com)
[7/25/2009 4:01:31 PM] [T1] Connecting (202.177.16.121)
[7/25/2009 4:01:32 PM] [T1] Connected (202.177.16.121)
[7/25/2009 4:01:43 PM] [T1] Connecting (202.177.16.121)
[7/25/2009 4:01:43 PM] [T1] Connected (202.177.16.121)
[7/25/2009 4:01:54 PM] [T1] Connecting (202.177.16.121)
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Firstly, the integrated search engines no longer work in version 0.25.0, as explained in this stickied thread:
https://www.altbinz.net/forum/index.php?topic=2485.0
You can follow the links in that thread to search & download NZBs using a browser, though, and import them into Alt.Binz.
Secondly, Alt.Binz does not handle headers, it only uses NZBs. I suggest that you look through the starter guides in this stickied thread to understand the difference:
https://www.altbinz.net/forum/index.php?topic=787.0
The wiki has all the rest. Enjoy. :)
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Also, you're trying to use poor or dead servers.
202.177.16.121, also known as 'freenews.netfront.net' is a text group server in Hong Kong with a very limited amount of binaries on it and I wouldn't attempt to use it for that.
The free server known as 'public.teranews.com' has been defunct for a while.
Maybe your ISP offers something?
http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm (http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm)
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I'm one of the "lucky" ones for whom AT&T/Bellsouth just discontinued all newsgroups. They discontinued the binaries a long time ago.
The 202.177.16.121 server hosted a bunch of groups that I recently subscribed to via Windows Mail. When I go to any of them in Windows Mail, there are many current headers but not anything that I was looking for.
For sure, teranews was always pathetic. Oddly enough, I cannot connect to that one at all via Windows Mail but it shows as "connected" in alt.binz.
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Astraweb $11/month offer still available, apparently:
http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html
Remember that Alt.Binz is for binary downloads only, not text groups. ;)