I wasn't quite sure how to do this, as although JS started the thread,
Anatol's query was one of the most recent, and in the thread were
references to newsservers. I hope I don't appear rude.
I suggest that perhaps the film that Anatol is thinking of may be
"Wild America"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_America_%28film%29
Also, I see discussions below on newsservers. I am currently with
Forte, but Astraweb's site makes their service look pretty good, and
it has groups that neither Forte nor Giganews have. I did check out
Usenetserver, but their site seems a little too "American" for me, if
you get my drift. May I ask Anatol, JS, AO for suggestions on the
best newsservice, including speed, retention and "non-snoopiness", if
you know what I mean.
Thanks! :o)
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:42:55 +1100, John Smith<JS@tardis.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:20:10 -0800, anatol <anatol@somewhere.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:49:54 +1100, John Smith<JS@tardis.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:38:09 -0800, anatol <anatol@somewhere.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Sorry about the delay in writing. We just got from a few days on the
>>>>road and noticed this post. The once-a-week post of LP will work out
>>>>beautifully; my friend has decided to stay here a while because of the
>>>>great weather so my time will be somewhat limited.
>>>>
>>>>As time permits, I'll also work on one of the two My Fathers - the
>>>>French one, if I can get past the street language, and the Dutch one,
>>>>if I can get back into the language and the storyline.
>>>>
>>>>By the way, I was looking back through some old nzb files (I'm still
>>>>looking for the two flicks I'd mentioned some time ago). Anyway, I
>>>>was surprised to find that postings in an nzb that I had downloaded
>>>>some 1188 days ago were still on the Astraweb servers. So, maybe I'll
>>>>come across some movies I've seen but not kept. The problem is that
>>>>most of the nzb index sites don't go back that far, so if I don't
>>>>still have the nzb, it would be hard to come up with a new one.
>>>>
>>>>Another by the way: I just came across a Russian site called
>>>>http://kidsinmovies.wordpress.com/. Are you familiar with that one?
>>>>
>>>>Yeah, a couple of times I had to look up to realize it was Oli that
>>>>was talking. I used to be able to tell by his voice, but it has
>>>>apparently broken since episode 10. Maybe they have a long gap
>>>>between filming the first and last 10 episodes of a season.
>>>>
>>>>Anatol
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Talking about Dutch fathers - it is almost certain there are no Dutch
>>>subs on my father 2. There were supposed to be but none appeared on
>>>the posted dvds and Klompen in BOYS said there were none on the dvd he
>>>bought.
>>>
>>>Do you want me to post the mon pere Fr subs with the first 500 subs
>>>corrected? I have not had time to do the rest yet.
>>>
>>>I found some interesting things concerning old posts. I found a
>>>significant problem with incomplete posts on some fairly recent Danish
>>>posts (English movies or English subs) so I got a subscription with
>>>Usenetserver solving that problem. When I tried to download all the
>>>headers in mba they only went back a bit more than 2 years. However
>>>when I used nzbs I had made from Astraweb headers the Usenetserver
>>>posts were there and downloaded without a problem - very strange.
>>>
>>>What again were the old movies you were after?
>>>
>>>Next LP in slightly less than 2 days.
>>>
>>>John
>>
>>John,
>>
>>I was still working on the first of the Dutch fathers. From what I
>>remember I was about a half of the way through the Dutch srt but have
>>forgotten the theme and some of the vocabulary and will have to go
>>back and review what I did - it's been about six months since I last
>>looked at it.
>>
>>Yeah, thanks, it would be nice to have a more correct transcription to
>>work with. The bad interpretation of some of the characters would
>>have just complicated an already complicated task.
>>
>>I'm assuming that it wasn't until 2 years ago that Usenetserver added
>>the mba group. I know that about 2 years ago I had Newzbin add the
>>abpba because they didn't consider it a multimedia group. After I
>>convinced them it was in fact multimedia they added it but postings
>>made prior to that date don't appear in the group's database. I don't
>>know whether that related to the problem you had or not.
>>
>>The problem with the movies I'm looking for is usually that I remember
>>either a partial storyline or a few scenes but don't remember the
>>title. The one I did recently try to download from an old nzb file
>>was "en tu ausencia". It appears that even though it wasn't that old
>>that all the files weren't still there. Maybe it's the smaller files
>>that they retain and delete larger files to give more space.
>>
>>I'd be interested in knowing which Danish flicks you were looking for
>>or found. From my perspective, a lot of them have been dubbed in
>>German - I just watched "Min bedste fjende" that was that way.
>>
>>The two that I have been looking for for some time now are ones for
>>which I don't remember the titles.
>>
>>One contained kids dressed in robes, possibly as monks, and may have
>>taken place in the middle ages. The most memorable scene was where at
>>least one kid was doing either cartwheels or backflips and the
>>director, either intentionally or not, left in a couple of frames
>>which showed more of the kid than would have been possible in a US
>>production. I don't remember what language the flick was in.
>>
>>The other was one where a kid comes across an old plane either in a
>>hangar or in his grandfather's(?) barn. It ends where his grandpa (?)
>>is sick/dying in bed in either a hospital or at home and sees the kid
>>flying the plane.
>>
>>I'll try to be home when the next LP appears, so that I can it out as
>>soon as possible.
>>
>>Best wishes,
>>
>>Anatol
>
>
>The second one sounds very much like:
>
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115553/
>
>I only recently downloaded it so have not watched it yet. He does find
>a plane and its ends with someone in a bed (probably his mother) after
>a shot of the plane flying off into the distance. Despite being almost
>3 years old I downloaded the Baraka dvd9 from Usenetserver without a
>problem (its probably ok on Astraweb as well). There is no
>grandfather. There is a step father and a dead father. I will post the
>nzb for you. (My isp has dramatically increased my upload limit so I
>am trying to download a few I had put aside as possibilities. Of
>course I have now run into hard disk storage problems.
>
>More later.
>
>John
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