Newsgroups are organized into category hierarchies of names and dots, which are read right to left. For example, alt.music.jazz means the jazz music topic in the alt (alternate) category. Categories are often designated with an asterisk to represent "all topics;" for example, talk.* means "talk.all," or the entire Talk category (see wild cards).
The Alt category is the most varied. The least moderated of newsgroups, Alt contains a huge number of topics, including x-rated material. The alt.binaries category is used to share non-text files, including software, images and videos. Following are the major categories. See newsgroup and Usenet.
The Alt category is the most varied. The least moderated of newsgroups, Alt contains a huge number of topics, including x-rated material. The alt.binaries category is used to share non-text files, including software, images and videos. Following are the major categories. See newsgroup and Usenet.
Category Subjects alt varied, x-rated alt.binaries non-text (images, videos) biz business (ads allowed) comp computer (technical issues) misc miscellaneous news technical issues about Usenet rec recreation (sports, travel, etc.) sci science and medicine soc social issues talk debates, controversial topics
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- News File Grabber 4.6.0.3 (Windows)
- News File Grabber is a powerful and high efficient newsreader which lets you easily download all kinds of files from the newsgroups on the USENET. There are supported all common decoding schemes, including yENC (also multi-parts with auto-combining). The program supports multiple servers, simultaneous download threads and secure server connections...
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- PictureAgent is quite simply the best tool for downloading binaries from the USENET newsgroups automatically. Select the groups to scan and PictureAgent does the rest. As each file is selected, it is downloaded and decoded directly to disk. PictureAgent supports Windows 98, NT, 2000, ME and XP. Support for...
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