"Fiver's Mom" <FiversMom@ItAgain.com> wrote
news:7pmdney6K8QLdb7InZ2dnUVZ5hSdnZ2d@giganews.com:
> "noone" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:<5523a2b5$0$41778$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com>...
>> On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:19:53 +0000, Kieranisdrunk wrote:
>>
>> > A lot of you probably know this but, for the benefit of those that
>> > don't,
>> > here is an easy way to see what a RAR file holds using nothing more
>> > than one of the most popular Usenet search engines and no need to
>> > download any files.
>> >
>> > First, you need to go to -
>> >
>> > http://www.binsearch.info/
>> >
>> > At the top click on the link for 'browse newsgroups'.
>> >
>> > Scroll down until you find alt.binaries.mp3.audiobooks and click on
>> > that link.
>> >
>> > Now find the post you want to investigate. For example, go back to
>> > 04 or 05 Apr and find one of the posts with those odd headers. Let
>> > us say we use 05-Apr and the post headed -
>> >
>> > h4ei934fwp76p5typ68gfdv4pyf402eo07 - [01/43] -
>> > "h4ei934fwp76p5typ68gfdv4pyf402eo07.par2" yEnc (1/1)
>> >
>> > Under the header you will see a link marked 'collection'. Click
>> > that. Towards the top of the new page you will see Automated post
>> > analysis and details of the main file in the archives, in this case
>> > book 7 of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
>> >
>> > Can't guarantee it will work everytime i.e. with passworded rars
>> > but nobody would want to touch them anyway.
>>
>> Thanks mate. It's bloody obvious now that you describe it :-)
>>
>
> Well, maybe it is obvious to some. But, I still am missing a piece.
> Once you open the main file in the article, yup, there it is: the
> name of the book!
>
> However, when looking at the subject of the newsgroup file, how do you
> tell that "h4ei934fwp76p5typ68gfdv4pyf402eo07 - [01/43] -
> "h4ei934fwp76p5typ68gfdv4pyf402eo07.par2" yEnc (1/1)" is going to be
> "Stephen King - (The Dark Tower VII)" ???
>
> As far as I can see, a person would have to open at least one file for
> each book in order to find out the name of the book. If, using
> BinSearch, you did that, well, it could take a long time!
>
> So, am I missing something?
>
> Fiver's Mom
>
The original question was working out what was in the oddly named rar
files and the suggested method using Binsearch solves this.
Unfortuantely, and I think this is what you are asking, there is no
formal index of the 'look in' items. I'm guessing there would be real
logistical problems for Binsearch to double-index items under the posted
headers and the 'hidden' content when the latter information could be
flaky.
A good example of those complications is a post today where the header
contains - QWV2w4V4S4ZIjlmsjq0rK5vJL80miY. This is a passworded post
(hence there being no post info on Binsearch) so would return a blank if
indexed.
Maybe people who post under meaningless headers will realise that they
are not succeeding in hiding the real subject. As for the password posts,
there might be reasons, maybe intending it for a specific person only.
Other than that, the only reasonss I can think to takes such measures are
one, they want us to visit a dodgy website or, two, the content is wholly
inappropriate to this group.
Kieran
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