Re: [Pan-users] OT: nzb or group searching or ??

[Travis]

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From: "vr" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:27 PM
To: <address@hidden>
Subject: [Pan-users] OT: nzb or group searching or ??

> Please excuse these off-topic bits but since knowledgeable usenet veterans
> lurk here I figured it worth a shot.
>
> I've tried bin search dot com a number of times and usually come up short
> with some of the heavily populated groups, many millions of headers in 
> some
> cases!
>
> My usenet provider is Giganews and to my knowledge doesn't offer server
> side indexing. I am wondering what other folks here are doing to locate
> content quickly without expending days to pull down those headers, only to
> choke on them at the client?

We have FiOS 25/15 so it takes no time at all to download a huge bunch of 
headers.
It is necessary to limit the total number at one time so as not to choke 
Pan.
Then it is just a matter of skimming quickly through the headers.
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Travis in Shoreline Washington