The original post: /r/usenet by /u/shockin779 on 2024-12-20 02:46:36.

I am curious how it works. For example:

I have a subscription to newsgroupninja on the Omicron backbone and I am having some issues with missing articles on some things.

I know you have an indexer, in this case nzbgeek, that has the “treasure map” to the file parts locations on the Usenet service. I am trying to get more successful downloads.

In reading, it sounds like if I bought a block account at another backbone, ie: Usenet.farm, this would allow me to possibly have more success.

I am wondering how this works. For instance, on nzbgeek, I never specify the newsgroup I use. So since the nzb file has a list off the files and their locations on the Usenet platform, how does it know where the files are located on any given backbone?

Also, let’s say I am downloading a file with 100 articles. On newsgroupninja it finds 70 and 30 are missing. If I have my downloader setup right, does it then only look at usenet.farm for only the remaining 30 articles and together makes a complete file? (This is more for block account usage)

Thanks!