Back then, the average retention of a usenet provider was a whopping 30 days.   Now easynews is up to 700 days!  Wow.  Almost 2 freakin’ years.

In addition to having great completion ratios, they also had a very active forum and a usenet browser.  The only reason I ever left easy news was because I got a contract job at a large isp and had backbone access to usenet directly.  Back when most people had dial up access to the internet, I had Ethernet access to usenet, muhahahahahaha… but I gloat.

Anyway, I recently tried Easynews again and they are still top notch, so give them a try.  As I said earlier, they are up to 700 days of retention and they’ve recently rolled out a fantastic new Usenet Browser.

It’s like google for usenet.

The real usenet.  You know what I’m talking about.

Why are you still here? - Go get some usenet!!! Easynews web-based Usenet browser

If what you’re really interested in is picture - especially adult pictures, then there are several sites dedicated to just that.  www.newscat.com is one of these sites.  Basically, they decode in real time the most popular picture groups and generate web pages on the fly that anyone can use.  Even if you have no usnet experience, you can see the best photos usenet has to offer.  There are tens of thousands of pictures posted to usnet daily, so this is a really cool service.  There are others that do the same thing that newscat.com does, but we like newscat for it’s simplicity.  You click on the daily or weekly archives, click on the group you’re interested in and the site thumbnails everything posted to that group (minus most of the spam)  It’s really a very simple but effective site.  We’ll review some of the other websites offering usenet pictures in the future. 

 UPDATE - As some users have commented, the site download-stuff.com is no more. 

The first option is to use a usenet program specifically designed for downloading pictures.  My favorite program for just pics is Quadsucker News.  Quadsucker allows you to subscribe to the picture newsgroups of your choice and it automatically downloads the files.  You can set it to constantly check the groups and continuously download the new pictures that are posted to those groups.

Another great feature of Quadsucker is that it can have 4 feeds at the same time if your Usenet Provider supports multiple feeds.

You can checkout the program here - www.quadsucker.com

I hope to have a quadsucker tutorial up soon.   The next article about downloading usenet pictures will be about specific news servers that specialize in picture groups.

And then, to download you simply right-click on the file and select leech.  If it is a multi-part file, you right click on one of the files, left click on “Smart Select” and Newsleecher highlights all related files.  You then simply click leech and it will download them for you. 

 It has built in nzb and par support also, just like most modern newsreaders.  You can also browse newsgroups manually, hunt and peck style. 

The only problem with newsleecher I’ve found is that it’s a little confusing to setup for someone who has never used a newsreader.  Ted is working on a video tutorial to upload in the coming week that should get even the most inexperienced user up and running with this great tool.

I’d also like to note, that although we do have advertising on this site, we are in no way affiliated with Newsleecher and get no type of compensation when you use our link to go there and download the program.  Anytime we review a product that we get kickbacks on we will be sure to mention it.

 Here is the link to Newsleechers home page….NEWSLEECHER - GREAT USENET PROGRAM