Usenet = Usable?

Personally, I've been using Apps like DC++, LimeWire, Transmission (torrents), and before those KaZaa to download 'certain things' from the web. All of these are Peer-2-Peer sharing Apps and it has been working great for me so far. But every now and then somebody is telling me that nothing beats Usenet.

So about every time I hear this I try out some kind of newsreader. I've tried Outlook (Express), Entourage, Unison and quite a few more. All of these readers display loads of sections and groups and every group has thousands of messages and files in them. But opening a group maybe reveals a couple of messages, and of course they're far from being usable ones.

So the point where I always get stuck is: How do I find a file???. I did find a couple of sites that indexed all of these Usenet messages and binaries and I could find useful files but again: How do I download these!?
edit: Yes I did finally figure out I could generate *.nzb files and open them with a Newsreader. But not a single file could be downloaded by any of the readers ...

I know I'm probably the only one that has tried it and doesn't get it. But still no-one, not even Google, has been able to tell me how this thing works.
Well for now I'll just stick to torrents and LimeWire ... until someone tells me about Usenet.

25-04-2008 01:18:46