>"Kieranisdrunk" <kieran@aintdrunknomore.com> wrote in message
>news:<XnsA475BAE9AB841kierandrunkcom@81.171.92.220>...
> "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
OK. WHY?
(Doubt if I'll be using it. Doesn't seem to be worth it. RAR files in and
of themselves aren't. Add yet another layer: No thank you.)
Fiver's Mom
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