Retention is the maximum age of the messages that the server hosts. A retention of 100 days means the server stores messages up to 100 days old. Good providers have a retention of 300 or more days. Some providers offer plans with different speeds, usually measured in mbits/s. Recommended is to get a speed that matches the speed of your Internet connection. That way you can download at maximum speed. A good provides allows unlimited data transfers. There are many special search engines for it. If your search query yields results, then simply select the items that you want to download. Then press the button called Create NZB and save the generated file on your computer. You can open this file with your newsgroup download tool, as we will explain in a moment.Ī NZB file is an XML based file format that contains a list of message identifiers for messages that have been posted in a newsgroup. Newsgroup download tools can use this information to download those messages and reconstruct the attached files. When something is uploaded to a newsgroup, it usually consists of a group of related files called a collection. Below we will explain the use of each type of file that you may encounter. This contains a list of newsgroup message identifiers. Information that is used by download tools when downloading content from Usenet.
These files together are a multi-file RAR archive. When uploading files to Usenet it is common practice to put those files into a RAR archive.
How you can extract files out of such an archive is explained later on in this tutorial. There are used to verify data integrity and to repair damaged files. How you should use these files is explained later. This is a text document that contains information about the file(s) it came bundled with.
You can open it with any text editor, but since they often contain ascii art it is recommended to use a special viewer such as Damn NFO Viewer. This is a file that contains file checksums for a RAR archive. It can be used for checking file integrity.
You can just ignore these kind of files, since it is preferred to use the. This file can be used to recreate a multi-file RAR archive that is identical to the one this file came bundled with. You don't need to do this so you can just ignore these kind of files. To download files from Usenet you simply open a NZB file with your favorite newsgroup download tool.