All the FAQs
The usenet (or 'newsgroups') is a little know aspect of the net. Not a "www.something", the usenet exists everywhere, on your's and everyone else's ISP's servers. The usenet can be accessed by simply adding your news server's address (get it from your ISP) to a news reader, subscribing to the groups you want, then reading them. Although the usenet is pretty much how the net started, most people forgot about it as HTML and graphics made the net 'pretty' and easy to use. Only about four percent of internet users even know about the usenet's existence, let alone use it. For such a small number of people, the amount of traffic is obscene. The usenet is amazing in it's diversity and richness. The mainstream net has become a commercial venue full of marketing scumbags and bozo's slapping lawsuits on everybody. The usenet remains the last true holdout of anarchy and free speech. You'll be entertained, educated, enlightened, inspired, offended and sometimes sickened...but you WON'T be bored!
I post my Bride porn in the newsgroup 'alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.uniform' Why waste time trying to download small, low quality images from the Yahoo groups when you can get the original, full sized images quickly and easily. Download the following directions and start reading. Like anything worthwhile, it's takes a bit of learning. If a certified, card carrying, computer illiterate like me can do it, then anyone can! Downloading from a newsgroup is very fast. On ADSL I usually see speeds around 1.1Mbps Most news readers let you select multiple posts to download, making it automatic. NewsBinPro (I like this one for multipart posts) shows me whether all the parts are there then lets me get them all with one click. It beats the hell out of downloading pics from Yahoo's groups one at a time.
My usenet directions in text format: Usenet Directions.zip (how to get started)
The 'Bulldogs' usenet FAQ: Bulldog's FAQ.zip (lots of good info from a 'pro')
The FAQ for ABPEU: Faq142.zip
The FAQ for the leading multimedia erotica group: ABMEFAQ (if you want to download entire movies, this is the page to visit. More info than you'll ever need!)