Red wrote in :

Hey Larry, how do you find magazines posted on alt.binaries.books
newsgroups? I've tried searching with a bunch of different criteria to
no avail. If fact I haven't found much in the way of useable books
there
either, lots of poetry and novels is all.

Thanks,
Red



First, you must be on an NNTP-based news reader hooked to a real news
server, not some webpage-based nonsense like Google. I'll assume you are
connected to a real Usenet NNTP server that has binary news groups, not
just text like the freebies do.

Your header is all munged nonsense, so I can't see what news reader, if
any, you are using. It must be capable of downloading and decoding Yenc-
encoded binary files. I recommend Xnews from xnews.newsguy.com but there
are many others that specialize in binary decoding. .pdf files from e-
book newsgroups decode directly to the readable .pdf, .chm or other
text/picture formats, except a few stupidly compressed into .rar files,
which requires WinRAR to assemble later. The mags decode directly.

I'm looking at newsgroup alt.binaries.e-book.technical and I see
posted Jan 07 a .pdf file for:
Ger's Leesmap Nr 72 [35/53]"Sailing_World_-_Jan-Fed-07.pdf" yEnc(~~/78)
in its subject line. Xnews compiles all 78 messages in this binary file
into one line, making it easy to pick. This would be the Jan-Feb 07
issue of Sailing World. Each month, someone called 4Fun posts the entire
Ger's Leesmap magazine CD-Rom for all kinds of magazines. This is one of
them. There are 53 magazines in Nr 72 CD posted Jan 07. I download
thousands of books, magazines, technical papers and other things that
interest me from this one newsgroup every week. If you need the
Operations Manual for the Boeing 747, it's posted here every so often for
our amusement, along with all the weapons manuals the kids can lay their
hands on...(c; I think I can start a nuclear reactor, too. I read its
manual from here...

How do you connect to the rec.boats newsgroups? Your header in your
message is a mess.



Larry
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Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.