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Giganews is perhaps the most expensive news provider, it is also able to charge that because it can back it up (there are several other fantastic providers with bit less storage time and whatnot which can approach that sort of cost (especially with the dollar being so weak).
I just checked out usenet server like djgarf suggested and it looks ok. £7.40 per month, unlimited d/l. Pretty good deal. Would that be ok for UK users or would we be better off with a europe-based server?
Still reasons for corrupt downloads:I might just be extremely biased against rapidshare though (in my opinion there are far better examples of storage sites and to compare it to usenet is borderline obscene).
I didn't really look it from a storage point of view coz I hardly ever upload. As a pure downloader I just look at a few factors - How fast will it download, will the files be corrupt/fake, can I find what I want. RS has been good to me ever since I found a lot of good forums and search engines.
QUOTE(FAST6191 @ Sep 3 2007, 09:46 PM)
As usenet only does ASCII characters and a few other select characters (the protocols are damn ancient: pre internet really)Â to post data it has to be encoded, most binary posts are encoding using the yEnc method (earlier methods include replacing the hex values with their ASCII equivalent, see Uuencode and Base64). This leaves several stages at which corruption can occur (the initial encoding, the initial transfer and propagation, the transfer from the news server to your machine (this is especially noticeable if you are after older posts) and the decoding on your machine)
Well explained. I even understood most of it!