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From: Manny Slocum <ManSloc2013@HotShot.net>
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Subject: Re: Looking for a Pointer or Two ThX!
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:23:50 -0600, BC <DPOHare@work.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 09:49:22 -0600, Shredder <shredder@att.net> wrote:
>
>>Manny Slocum <ManSloc2013@HotShot.net> wrote in
>>news:74ot8ddrl869o566fjcs3ioba5jjck2ble@news.giganews.com:
>>
>>> Hiya guys, say, just wondering whether any of youze guyze who've been
>>> around longer with more experience than I have know where to find the
>>> 'magic decoder ring' for all the gobbledegook filenames being uploaded
>>> to AB.TEEVEE these days?
>>>
>>> Yeah, I know I can download each and every one of them and open the
>>> first RAR file to find out what's inside, but it's a huge pain in the
>>> behind, especially when I'm just looking to find Episode X+1 of some
>>> series I'd been download without all the aggravation before the
>>> horsepucky started in recent months. Spending an hour every day
>>> slogging through the crapola is a huge time waster. Nowadays, it's
>>> almost everything come down with junkola filenames.
>>>
>>> Anyone with knowledge of the translation procedure or listing and
>>> who'd be willing to pass along a clue or two or three, it'd be most
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank yuh verruh much (to quote Mr Presley)
>>>
>>> Manny Slocum
>>>
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>>
>>The "gobbledegook filenames" are almost all obfuscated files, which may or
>>maynot be complete. DLing any of them will almost always be fruitless.
>>Obfuscated files may or maynot be posted to a single NG which would make
>>your efforts to DL them highly risky and maynot resolve your efforts at
>>all. What you need to do is to subscribe to a NZB Index website and find
>>whatever files you want through their list of "obfuscated" files.
>>Personally, I use NZB Planet. Use your Internet browser to search for a
>>NZB Index website and subscribe to whatever site you choose.
>>
>>Granted, this will make you subscribe rather than continue using your News
>>browser to find what you want, and it will probably cost you something in
>>addition to your NG provider and client. Thanks to the DMCA cops who rob
>>you of finding what you want, but that is the cost you will have to pay to
>>DL what many/most good posters use these days.
>
>
> If you going to join a Index site I recomend NZBGrabit for free as
>long as what you want has been released in the last couple of days .
>If you want to go back further you will have to pay. Try it to
>decide if you want to pay or not
Thanks for the tip on NZBGrabit. Found some stuff I'd been missing.
Will follow it for a while; might be worth the investment.
Manny
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