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Originally Posted by boxboy
Hey people,
How are you using newsgroup's for file downloads instead of bittorrent's??
I'm new to this. Any help would be great.
Cheers
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This works with so called 'binary' newsgroups, basically the file is broken up & encoded as several smaller 'parts', which are uploaded to the server. People wanting to download the file, need to decode & recombine the parts to reconstruct the original.
It can get a little complicated, as different encoding protocols exist, but usually, using a decent newsgroup client program will do a lot of the hard work, for you.