On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:52:24 -0800, drek <none@none.invalid> wrote:
>On 11 Dec 2014 17:43:58 GMT, macer8
>wrote:<5489d7de$0$780$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com>
>
>>I'm also on Astraweb,
>I'd be interested to know if macer8 ever resolved his difficulty.
>What's missing in replies is how or IF NewsBinPro notifies users when
>an archive dl is incomplete and unrepairable.
Somehow I decoded a good copy of Castle 3. If Newsbin does not see
enough PAR recovery files, the download remains in the download list
until it is manually deleted or one way or another Newsbin has enough
file blocks or recovery blocks to decode. Most times when this
happens I go to Binsearch for a recent NZB collection to download only
what I need. Where "Recent NZB" means a new file set that includes
any corrections made after the original post.
With Newsbin, I have Astraweb, AstrawebUS, eu.news.astraweb as normal
servers and "fill" servers. When none of those get the missing
chunks, Newsbin drops down in priority to a free server in Netherlands
and finally to APN which is a 20gb/month cheap fill server run by
Forte Agent that usually has everything.
I suspect Mercer8 was still learning Newsbin, but the Castle 3 NZB
that I posted was from astraweb and recent and should have worked.
Many times a fileset starts by posting an nzb before the regular files
are posted. So if the regular files are bad and later corrected, the
original nzb is worthless. A "Recent NZB" usually works.
Newsbin has a bad track record missing headers, at least on my
computer, but Forte Agent does get all the headers and is useful to
see what headers actually exist.
Newsbin also has a bad track record reading messages, at least on my
computer, but Forte Agent will read everythng, even my own posts that
Newsbin ignores because they are too short going in and out on
astraweb.
Newsbin is great otherwise, especially with header management. Forte
Agent looks like a disaster with all the headers and I have about five
years experience using Forte Agent.
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