missing blocks and different servers
- Thread starter Steve Austin
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Maybe that post will cause padawan to 'give up and go back to torrents', I hope not.
On Astraweb, 211.rar is missing 48 of 130 articles or 37%.
Giganews got a DMCA takedown notice for that post. Since Supernews is part of Giganews, the post is probably incomplete on Supernews as well. They remove only the first article of each file, but sometimes there aren't enough recovery blocks posted.
In another thread padawan reveals that the newsreader 'Newsbin Pro' is used.
Read this disgusting topic on the Newsbin Pro board about how the wise(?) programmers stripped away fill servers' ability to only download articles that are missing on the primary server:
http://forums.newsbin.com/viewtopic.php?t=25404
On Astraweb, 211.rar is missing 48 of 130 articles or 37%.
Giganews got a DMCA takedown notice for that post. Since Supernews is part of Giganews, the post is probably incomplete on Supernews as well. They remove only the first article of each file, but sometimes there aren't enough recovery blocks posted.
In another thread padawan reveals that the newsreader 'Newsbin Pro' is used.
Read this disgusting topic on the Newsbin Pro board about how the wise(?) programmers stripped away fill servers' ability to only download articles that are missing on the primary server:
http://forums.newsbin.com/viewtopic.php?t=25404
scarecrowmasked
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I confirm, issues with incompletes seems to have been nicely fixed or well improved!
Mrs. Taylor Lautner
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hi mesaman, thank you for your answer. i also found some other threads about this specific problem on google.
i guess i'm gonna get a block-account as hdjunky suggested. is usenet-news a good choice? it seems they are with highwinds and that is different then astraweb, right?
i guess i'm gonna get a block-account as hdjunky suggested. is usenet-news a good choice? it seems they are with highwinds and that is different then astraweb, right?
:lol: people are saying it's a fluke, people are still having issues, here and there, I tested one NZB that I tried the other day that was bad and it was good.....today.
Although many people have told me it depends on the day/time you download, seems some people just deleted what had download (most of the time a couple RARS) and re-loaded the NZB and worked, go figure.
It must have been a top-secret problem...no news about it, or they read forums like "ours" :lol:
http://helpdesk.astraweb.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=view
Although many people have told me it depends on the day/time you download, seems some people just deleted what had download (most of the time a couple RARS) and re-loaded the NZB and worked, go figure.
It must have been a top-secret problem...no news about it, or they read forums like "ours" :lol:
http://helpdesk.astraweb.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=view
azirontoticon
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actually i wrote them a support ticket about my download troubles yesterday and they told me they would look into it
astraweb, i'm gladly suprised :fst:
sydneyhayes
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Highwinds is getting DMCA takedown notices for HBO shows, but so far Blocknews.net doesn't seem to be affected.
PridePowerPinstripes!
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Usenetnews is good but a bit more expensive than blocknews i suppose you can not go wrong either way though, but i didnt know that about the HBO shows and highwinds, good to know!
That is ridiculous and a very needed feature in a news reader now a days. Why would they take it out is beyond me!
That is ridiculous and a very needed feature in a news reader now a days. Why would they take it out is beyond me!