You're teaching me how to suck eggs.
There are better ways and ways with a lot more choice - simple as that.
As an Admin on Newzbin (3 years ago) and United Forums (up to 4 weeks ago) I had free paid access to other major sites and I know the method that worked best and best for other team members.
I know how it all works and I know a little bit about how the scripts on some sites pull it all together but you rely on other posters doing the work and wasting their time.
It's threads like this that make me wonder why I did it for all those years being a major contributor to the NZB scene and I suppose Leechers (like yourself) do have that 'I'm OK I can get what I want and my way is best' attitude without realising where it came from in the first place.
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This thread has now made me make the decision to cease activities which took up a lot of my time so at least I can thank some of you for that.
I need to get out of this thread now.
I'm not having a go at you for your methods, and I would really like it if you stayed in the thread if only to help me understand your madness better. Your post reeks of pompous "I work in the industry I know what I'm talking about" attitude but you have done nothing to tell me why I'm wrong.
Just to make things clear; I don't use Newzbin anymore. I haven't for about a year. Maybe you're right. I don't have any opinions on this matter from an admin point of view, but I can only speak as the user. From a user point of view, we don't care where the nzb comes from and, until they are all being made by monkeys, it doesn't matter.
What you're trying to tell me is that your method of collating the raw articles and making your own nzb is better than pulling a perfectly fine nzb that maybe you yourself have uploaded or a computer machine script has done automatically. You're telling me that you were a major contributer to the scene and that you and your colleagues all use the same methods. Isn't it funny that you don't trust each others nzbs?
I have like a 1% failure rate which is nearly always when I'm trying to get something really old or really new which I guess where the quality of astraweb comes into play. Recently users have been experiencing a lot of CRC errors from Astraweb but the price:completion ratio means that I am happy to live with it.
Of course I rely on other people to make sure that each nzb site is working to give my rss reader a better chance of getting a hit. Maybe people are just using rubbish websites if this isn't good enough. I rely on admins to weed out the rubbish reports but they need to do that too because if their website was full of crap then nobody would use it. They don't only do it for us. They do it so that they keep their user base. Let me be clear (about something else) - This post isn't about the work the admins and the contributers do. This is about the easiest and best way to get my
LINUXES.
You've made a tool and a resource that makes it so easy for everyone yet you still do it the long winded way. Is peace of mind really that valuable to you? Maybe it's because I have 50Mb broadband and I've just been really spoilt because I really am not wasting any time if I have to download something twice. Saying that, I can't remember having to redownload something because the nzb was wrong. The good thing about my set up is that it receives propers and fixes as necessary.
If someone made me a machine to make a full English breakfast automatically but there was a chance I would be missing a few baked beans then I'll use that even if I have to pay a little bit. The price is nothing to me. The convenience is priceless. You can sit there scraping all the juice from the baked beans tin, it doesn't bother me.
[OPINION] Using .nzb
is the best way. It's automatic. My client reads the RSS feed and pulls ready made nzbs into a processing queue. It downloads automatically for me. It checks the .rar integrity automatically. Downloads the par2 files if needed and repairs automatically. It renames the files automatically so that my library is all in order. It will even generate artwork and put a description automatically. All within an hour of being released. Why do it any other way?
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I don't know if pressing the 'Submit Post' button is a good idea. This post makes me look like a bigger nerd than "Waa I'm a major contributer and people don't understand the work we do so I'm throwing my toys out of the pram and I'm leaving!!".
I don't know how the bloody hell can I write so much abut this...
