Which usenet client do you use?

After reading around on this forum yesterday, and seeing some people talk about sabnzbd - I decided to install it on my linux file server. It is absolutely awesome!!!! It downloads the files, checks them for damage and if needed fixes them, unrar's them all, puts them where I want them, and deletes the rar files. 100% automated. Plus I can put stuff in queue an then set times it that it is allowed to download so I don't kill my internet speeds while I am surfing, I can let it all happen at night while I am sleeping. It can also run scripts after it finishes. I hope to figure out how to do a script to have all the avi encoded to mpeg and then turned into iso's ready to burn for me. Not sure if that is possible, but I think it should be...
 
Newsleecher. Best money ever spent. Oh yeah I also download a lot from Easynews web interface. Easynews web interface kept me coming back and now I have about 801 gigs of unused credit. It just keeps adding up too. I don't know if I'll ever use it all.
 
never used newsbin, but have used newsleecher and grabit. between the two I'd say that newsleecher is the more user-friendly. It may have a slightly larger learning curve, but it makes the whole process (downloading headers, auto repair/extract, reading and posting) much easier than grabit.
 
I've never used the auto repair or extracting features of newsbin. I just do it all manually once I finish downloading. Are these features faster than doing it that way? What are the benefits?
 
backlash said:
I've never used the auto repair or extracting features of grabit. I just do it all manually once I finish downloading. Are these features faster than doing it that way? What are the benefits?
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Well, it's just a little more convenient for it to be done automatically, but not necessary. Also, newsleecher doesn't have the "decoding" period after the file is downloaded. That was one of the features of newzbin that I really didn't like. Even if I didn't have repair 'n extract enabled, it had to "decode" each file after download. I have no clue what this does (except maybe to "decode" the yencoding done during posting). either newsleecher doesn't have to do this, or it does it while downloading (which I would think is a better use of time).

anyone knoe for sure what the "decoding" is in grabit?
 
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