Author Topic: Help Getting Started  (Read 1970 times)

Offline johnnydancing

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Help Getting Started
« on: April 14, 2012, 10:49:05 pm »
I signed up for AstraWeb and bought Alt.Binz because it had some good reviews.  But now I am totally lost, so lost I don't even know what to search on.

Here is how far I got.  Added my AstraWeb SSL Log in, I can connect and Authenticate fine.  If I click on newsgroups I can fetch all the newsgroups names that AstraWeb.  My problem is, now what?

I selected 5 newsgroups I want to load the headers of and marked them as favorites.  But now I have been clicking around for 2 or 3 hours trying to figure out how to load the newsgroups I selected.

I see NZB and I think I need one but I checked AstraWeb and there is no talk of NZB there.


I looked through the wiki and did not find an answer.  Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction?


Offline Rdl

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Re: Help Getting Started
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2012, 11:11:10 pm »
Forget headers. Use search tabs, search for something and then add it to queue.

Offline johnnydancing

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Re: Help Getting Started
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2012, 02:01:18 am »
Ha! Magic... I guess I am really old school when it comes to usenet, I never thought of just doing a search.  Back in 1995 we had to download all the newsgroup headers then sift through them and then download what we wanted over a phone modem.  Been away for a while, things have changed.