[ronnieray]

ok let me help you out a little bit more. All of you who have an ISP account ( and i have found this to be true of my family and friends in europe ) already have a usenet account. You get it free from your ISP (internet service provider) . But if you dont ask them for the info you need to log on and start downloading then you will never even hear about it. Now most of the ISP provided usenet access only has limited retension, for instance, when I had verizon DSL i had a 7 day retension, this wasnt too bad for free. But when I moved over to Roadrunner cable internet, their rentension was only 24 hours...that sucked. To give you an idea what this means, lets say I want to get some mp3s.
I open up my newsbin and goto alt.binaries.music.mp3.1980s. If I logged in with my verizon usenet account it would tell me there was 10,000 files.
If I logged into the same group with my roadrunner account, it would say there are 2000 files. But when i log in with my giganews account it tells me ( and this is NOT an exageration ) 55 MILLION files. Now there are probably 20 worthwhile mp3 binary groups in usenet each holding millions of files. Again there are about 20 DVD groups each holding millions and millions of files ( when you log into it for the first time and retrieve the list of headers, it can take 4 hours just to get the list of things available, luckily you need only do this once, and then update list as time passes )
I live in america, but my 3yo isnt so good in speaking english, so being the #1 dad that i am, i want her to have cartoons she can get into. So I goto alt.binaries.divx.bajki, and there i will find cartoons in Polish language. So she gets a great collection of films to watch ( and i get a few minutes of peace and quiet ). My wife goes to alt.binaries.dvd.pl and gets tv shows and movies from Poland and again..I get few minutes of peace and quiet. and me.....well I goto all of them and get whatever my little heart desires. I have over 100 playstation2 games. I have upwards of 700 dvd's , God knows how many divx/xvid movies ( i lost count and after some time started getting very picky about movies i download, if the video and audio quality are not good quality then i dont bother anymore ( unless it just came out at the theater...in that case i will watch it anyways). I have a spindle full of mp3 dvds, i would hate to think of how many are there, but at 1 song every 3 seconds you can imagine.
Anyways, goto your ISP webpage or call them on the phone and get your newsgroup server address, and make sure you know your username and password. Get a demo version of newsbin ( google it ) then let me know when your ready. I will show you a world you never knew exsisted
until next time...ronnieray