Usenet / Newsgroups Discussion

Not asking for an invite!

I do have a NC VIP account. A friend of mine also wants to get into NC. Is there something like an invite system? Can't find it in the profile, so I guess not?

While my initial motivation to try usenet was to find releases that weren't being seeded on torrent trackers, I've found it to be a helpful alternative to keeping content seeded on my laptop's limited hard drive for extended amounts of time. To increase the chances that I find what I'm looking for, I check several usenet indexers simultaneously, preferring to use ones that have lifetime subscriptions (altHUB, Miatrix, and NZBGeek). Should those three lack what I'm looking for, I also use DrunkenSlug, NZB Finder, and Tabula Rasa, as their free plans can be used indefinitely. Aside from the six aforementioned indexers, are there any good ones that I've missed with free plans that don't expire?

From what I remember DogNZB, NinjaCentral, and NZBPlanet either have limited-time free plans or require account activity at least once every two weeks, which is why I chose to forego them in favor of the six I use now.

You will need 3 things at a basic level before you can download anything:

• A usenet provider, which will provide servers to download content from. Many offer in-bulk deals (yearly) which can average out to as low as 3-4 USD a month. Which providers are recommended?
• An NZB indexer. An .nzb file is akin to a .torrent file in that it contains a map pointing to the location of the content that you want to download. Can be as cheap as 10 USD a year. What are the best indexers?
• A download client (See: Usenet downloading software), into which you will feed your .nzb files in order to begin downloading your desired content. Which client is recommended?

Usenet Posting Software

For posting check nyuu wiki.

Usenet Indexer Metasearch (manual searching)

Search Automation Tools

Comics

eBooks

Movies

Music

TV

Subtitles

Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It was developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.

Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980.[1] Users read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects, and is the precursor to the various Internet forums that are widely used today. Usenet can be superficially regarded as a hybrid between email and web forums. Discussions are threaded, with modern news reader software, as with web forums and BBSes, though posts are stored on the server sequentially.

One notable difference between a BBS or web forum and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another in so-called news feeds. Individual users may read messages from and post messages to a local server operated by a commercial usenet provider, their Internet service provider, university, or employer.

See Wikipedia for more information.