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I just used the newsgroups for the first time today... not quite as straight-forward as I expected to try to get this issue I have with online banking resolved.
It seems to take approx 1 hour for posted messages to appear - judging by the sent time compared to when I see them. Is this normal? Or am I doing something wrong?
erm.... I found the problem... I think I'm meant to be using "text" rather than "news"... whilst I was waiting I found someone made a post on there about that issue.
Must say PotOfGold is a bright lass to have been able to get up n running with NNTP news so quickly.
Once your happy have fun with downloading binaries
Use newsbin pro or other binary reader and subscribe to alt.binaries of your choice
My b/f has used the newsgroups for a long time for d/l "binaries" - but he uses Grabbit and/or NewsLeecher... I just leave him to it tho and just pick out anything of interest when he refreshes. I never actually asked how it works (and I don't think he ever posted as he sounded confused when I asked him).
The help FAQ was quite straightforward and once I'd realised that "text" was the way to go it was much quicker - being a girl I do tend to "read the manual" first... or at least speedread
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