Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:09:32 -0500, HK wrote:

Mike wrote:
I used it for a long time, but found it didn't handle multi-part
binaries very well.

I generally don't use it for that, but when I have, it's worked ok. I guess
what I mean is that I get mp3s and whatnot, from other sources, not usenet.

I will admit though, that it aint perfect, but then again, nothing is...
except for Harry of course. :-?
I don't bother with multi-part binaries. I don't see the point. I
download MP4s from Russia (with Love), and any movies I might want are
available from various sites in *.RAR file format. Same with MP3's.

Right - I'm going to give a Russian mob a valid credit card number.

Not to mention that these are non-royalty paying sites and are
essentially pirating the music and movies.

Which I would think should be a problem for you being a professional
writer and such.

The problem with usenet music binaries is that you never really know
what the hell you are getting, quality-wise.

The better groups all use the higher compression. The stuff I
download is mostly experimental/trance/ambient stuff that has never
seen a recording studio.

Most of it is junk - some of it is quite good.


Okay. One of the sites I visit has acres of "trance" music. What the
hell is it?