Icemanbrfc
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Think with 2 posts on mybb, you going to struggle to get an invite around here.
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Sirus_the_virus
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Ok, so seems My account too was closed for not being used. Can anybody please spare an invite?
Foxhound5366
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Ok, noob question: what is NZBSA?
I know what regular p2p torrents are (thanks uTorrent), so is NZBSA just a private invite-only tracker?
I know what regular p2p torrents are (thanks uTorrent), so is NZBSA just a private invite-only tracker?
DA-LION-619
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Private site for NZBs.
Willy Strong
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Invites are closed, maximum user reached.
Foxhound5366
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Reading online about NZBs it appears that most quality services are paid-for subscriptions.
Is NZBSA unique because it's free, and why would it be free anyway if it's costing somebody money to host those servers?
Just trying to figure this out!
DA-LION-619
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So the explanation I'm going to give you might be a bit wrong so nobody flame me.
Before forums and such in the early Internet days, news groups existed like chat rooms.
Now people realized you could upload binary files there for sharing.
From my knowledge Telkom and IS have newsgroup servers but content isn't kept as long as paid for services. To compare it to torrent's you're downloading from a server and it's not P2P.
An episode for example might be split into 10 .rar files, and one might be corrupt. But theres a recovery file included to help fix this.
Foxhound5366
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Thanks for that DaLion. If anybody else has a localised idiot's guide on how to get going with this, I'll appreciate if you can share it with me (even via PM).
Soul Assassin
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A lot of indexing sites are free, you pay for the server you download from.
Foxhound5366
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Ok, so how does one access that free IS server that DaLion referred to? I've read that one uses SickBeard etc to do the actual downloading, but surely you'd need the IS server details to configure it?
I'm only hoping I'd even be able to access that IS server, considering I'm a WebAfrica client and that's on IS isn't it?
DA-LION-619
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Not sure if still relevant.
https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/588947-Usenet-Guide
It mostly a thing back when we had local data on ADSL.
Soul Assassin
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The program to download is called SABnzbd and WebAfrica's news server is:
"Webafrica: news.wa.co.za Port: 119
Willy Strong
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Still much relevant.
Foxhound5366
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Great, now I just need one of these infamous invites and I can try it out lol, but apparently the invites are closed again for the time being? My e-mail address is [email protected] for when they reopen, I'd like to check this thing out first-hand
PS: Yes yes, e-mail shared on open internuts, I don't care ... it's not my main address obviously.
Soul Assassin
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Great, now I just need one of these infamous invites and I can try it out lol, but apparently the invites are closed again for the time being? My e-mail address is [email protected] for when they reopen, I'd like to check this thing out first-hand
PS: Yes yes, e-mail on open internuts, I don't care ... it's not my main address obviously.
The invites are closed indefinitely.
crackersa
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Remember rule 1????
