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Sabu The Coconut Boy
Grand Member (6 years) 
Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 2278
From: Carson, California
|  Posted: 2006-02-24 11:33 pm
This thread got me thinkin'
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=18451&forum=11&5
Is there any interest in having me post a weekly or semi-weekly list of exotica and lounge lps that I find in the music newsgroups on the Usenet; that are available for free download by anyone? I subscribe to Easynews.Com, which makes searching the Usenet for Exotica very easy. I could pass on my finds to you all, and then you could find them and download them much easier. Any interest?
Here's a few more I found recently to add to the previous thread:
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1950s - Eden Ahbez - "Eden's Island", posted Feb 14
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s - Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo - "Moon Gas" (1963), posted Feb 14
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.world-music - Putamayo Presents Brazilian Lounge (promo 2006), posted Feb 19
Sabu
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Kono
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Joined: Oct 08, 2003
Posts: 1266
From: Orlando
| Posted: 2006-02-25 07:58 am
Would we have to subscribe to access them for the downloads?
I used to peruse some of those groups back in the old days. Wasn't access to usenet groups part of the old email browsers?
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parrothead040
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Joined: Feb 22, 2006
Posts: 2 | Posted: 2006-02-25 10:18 am
Yes I would be interested as long as I don't have to subscibe. I would rather find something that is strictly free download.
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 2278
From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2006-02-25 10:27 am
I used to get access to the newsgroups for free via Microsoft Outlook myself. It's been awhile since I accessed them this way. Unless you know exactly which newsgroup contains the file you want, it can be like looking for needles in haystacks. That's why I ended up paying for Easynews. But if I supply you the group and date, it should be fairly easy to access the files via Outlook or other programs, (I hope). How do other people here access the Usenet on the cheap or for free? How many days worth of files does Outlook give one access to?
Sabu
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c10
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Joined: Mar 04, 2005
Posts: 47
From: Napertucky, Illinois
| Posted: 2006-02-25 11:54 am
The Xnews program works pretty well for automagically converted encoded binaries on the Usenet into binaries (mp3 or whatever). It also groups all of the related posts together for you, I think this is a lot harder or impossible to do via Outlook.
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 2278
From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2006-02-25 12:30 pm
Here's a website on how to use Xnews, and it's free. So that's good.
http://www.slyck.com/xnews.php
Sabu
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pappythesailor
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Joined: Jul 07, 2005
Posts: 1528
From: Mass.
| Posted: 2006-02-25 1:48 pm
I'm in. I'll even post stuff!
P.S. Alot of people don't even know that their ISP gives has a news server. Be sure and find out if yours does b4 you start subscribing places.
PPS. I'm drunk!
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tikigap
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Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 828
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-02-25 3:07 pm
Sabu - Yeah, I'm very interested! It would be great to be able to find 'em like that.
Thanks!
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Jawa
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Joined: Mar 09, 2005
Posts: 223
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2006-02-27 06:59 am
Excellent idea Sabu, and most appreciated!
I currently use an old version of Agent for browsing my RoadRunner newsgroups. I wonder if the new version or Xnews handles things better...
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tikibars
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Joined: Apr 11, 2002
Posts: 1897
From: Aku Hall, Chicago
| Posted: 2006-02-27 10:19 am
Apple users will want to use a program called Thoth, which kicks butt for USeNet.
As mentioned above, make sure your ISP offers USeNet access.
For example, my ISP (SBC Global) offers it, but (GRRR!) has banned certain groups, including some of the 'alt.binaries' groups where you can get music.
I also use YottaNews (for any platform) which offers all UseNet access for free, but restricts dlownloades to 1 GB per month.
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pappythesailor
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Joined: Jul 07, 2005
Posts: 1528
From: Mass.
| Posted: 2006-02-28 03:56 am
How about alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.bizzaro-exotica ?
Anybody else have that newsgroup? Seems like the obvious place to post stuff.
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 2278
From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2006-02-28 07:11 am
Hah! It looks like you're the sole poster to that group in the last 30 days, Pappy. Maybe the Tiki-Centralites should take this dead group and make it their own. That might get the other Exotica posters on the usenet to hop on board.
Pappy has now posted some nice exotica to the group:
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.bizzaro-exotica - Bob Keene's "Masque d'Afrique" posted on Mar 1.
Sabu
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tikibars
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From: Aku Hall, Chicago
| Posted: 2006-02-28 08:09 am
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On 2006-02-28 07:11, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote:
Maybe the Tiki-Centralites should take this dead group and make it their own.
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This is an excellent idea.
BUT I just checked BOTH of the UseNet servers I mentioned above, and neither of them support this group.
Perhaps it is too obscure to use?
Anyone else having trouble seeing it?
[ This Message was edited by: tikibars 2006-02-28 08:13 ]
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 2278
From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2006-02-28 09:19 am
I notice that a lot of users double-post their mp3s in two groups at once, a large, catch-all group like alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 and then a more-specific group like alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s. Maybe this is done for the reason tikibars notes above; that not everyone has access to the less-popular groups? Most of the exotica I listed earlier in this thread and the previous one, were all double-posted this way. If users here want to double-post in alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 and alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.bizzaro-exotica, I can note both groups when I make my weekly list.
Sabu
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Jawa
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Posts: 223
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2006-02-28 12:14 pm
In addition to newsgroups, the hosting service for my site offers 1000GB a month of transfer. Maybe I can offer some sort of "Exotica Repository" ...if you will... for items that are no longer available or hard to get like Exotic Moods of Les Baxter, etc.
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