Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

Looking at their postal address it appears to be identical to Easynews, so they're supplying the feed.

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

Wish it was Giganews ;).

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

i have been using news.virginmedia.com, and for a while i have been using a site called united-forums, good site as lots of interesting things to look at, and for the past few weeks i cant download anything at all from united forum, but i could before, please dont tell me its retention i have been through all this before, its not that . all i want to find out is as virgin media done something so we cant do this anymore ? i use newsleecher and i wonder if there are anymore people out there thats having the same problem.:mad::mad::mad:

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

I have no problems downloading from news.virginmedia.com with newsleecher. I use many differant sites to find my nzb's but if i want something that is 7 days or less old then i have not problems. If i want something older then i now use Hitnews.eu. And before you ask i do download a LOT.

Tell you what i will register with that forum and try to download a nzb, Whats the link to it.


is it this

http://www.united-forums.co.uk/phpBB2/index.php

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

the stuff i tried to d/l was only hours old .. and its been going on for weeks , its well within the 7 days, oh and good luck to Warrington today, they are a good set of lads , all of them ......;),, but yes get back to united forums ,, have a look using news.virginmedia.com ,, like i say i could d/l before but not now ,,

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

Ok registered

Tell me something you cannot download pm if you want.

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Thanks

pm me with a nzb you are having problems with and i will try it.

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

message on its way

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

Well here is something new. I can get the nzb's and a file thats less than 7 days from that forum . However the file will NOT download with News.virginmedia.com however it downloads fine with http://www.hitnews.eu/english/damage.html and with giganews.com. So i have to say that there is something amiss with Vm's news server or VM are up to something :mad:

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

Take a look at the header from where it was posted, if it was Virginmedia then its probably propagated to the rest of the Usenet servers but VM have had a request to remove the file(s). Most of the commercial servers pay lip-service to those requests, VM may be different.

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

Many files found by Binsearch don't last long on VMs servers.. they suddenly vanish... even when only a couple of hours old...

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

Never had any problems before ,,, like it was said , VM must be upto something ,, to have something then have it taken away from you is not on .

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

Providing a good news server is probably in VM's interests. It cuts down on external bandwidth and means people "burst" chunks of bandwidth (e.g. to download a TV show) rather than just running BitTorrent which although slower for downloading also uploads for hours on end.

My BT client is on 24/7, uploading a constant 60k/sec. Now VM's news server suck a bit less, that may change.

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

you do seem to get some that get deleted by virgin or whoever but 90% of them are there, just try another file or search for same file with another nzb indexing site and see if same thing happens.

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

BTW, I use newshosting.com as a secondary server. Good speeds but most importantly you can buy chunks of downloads (say 50 gigs) and use them as you like. It's ideal as a secondary server for fills when VM fails.

Re: beta usenet server news.virginmedia.com
 

Yes, posts from united-forums are definitely being removed.
Less that 7 days old, and posted to two or more groups - not to be found in any.

I remember with the old VM servers when they ran news.ntlworld.com they did the same thing with filtering posts with certain phrases in the headers. It's annoying as anything.

Here is my thread from about 18 months ago:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...ain-posts.html