Re: RE: Re: Giganews Search Utility (was Re: BNR2 Search Utility)

john llewsrac said

> hello Evzen
> 
> Today a few bucks is not a lot to me but...... US$10 plus was a lot in
> the past which I could not aford. Especially with a familly of 2 etc etc
> etc
> 
> Knowing how to compensate with a few free servers is a mighty big plus
> for those on a low income using BNReaper.
> 
> When Lenny brings hope by giving advice on how one can gain what one
> wants within the budget they have I am all for it.
> 
> I appreciate any advice that Lenny is able to offer to those have been
> in the same situaton as I have been in.
> 
> John

First off I got Avi's server/site name wrong (I always seem to because of
Mikes readfreenews) its ReadNews and the site is http://www.readnews.com/,
his free server is freebin-auth.readnews.com port 119 and you need to use
a secure 'authinfo' type of login, in other words make up a username and
password and put them in, its like this because he is testing that said of
it right now, it can be anything, dont pull loads of headers from his
server, as that is the thing that is causing Usenet the most problems ATM
with silly posters using far too small part sizes and using up loads of
overview space and costing CPU and memory power, if you want to post use
7500 lines yEnc that has been tested be quite a few over 18 month a while
back and its about the best size. Its a testing server (like most free
servers) and needs to be worked on every now and then this is the point
that the nay-sayers miss when they say free servers dont work.

freebin-auth.readnews.com can some times be a bit slow to start up as
there are so many people going at it, have timeouts at 300 second and 30
sec re-trys to not cane the servers.

As for cost, I just dont feel the need to pay over the odds for
something... in fact anything. I think its a waste, as for the servers
being slow so what (that is when the few of them are that EN.nl server
could max out my 8meg line with 2 connections as do most others), I dont
sit watching my downloads, I dont have the time to waste, and ten 30KB/sec
servers are getting to be a good speed anyway, and if that really was the
case (free servers are slow) I would not be able to get the 10+ gigs of
data I get most days.

When I first started playing with usenet/free servers there was nothing
else, pay NSP's are a new thing, and the search is only really from the
start I then keep track and check each NSP testing server a few times a
month and when they are back on I use them, when they are not... there
will be another. The only hard bit is BNR3 cant seem to work with more
than about 14~15 servers in it at one time so I have to telnet to the ones
I done keep in it, or have to more them around when they stop testing

L.

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