Yes. But that was a long time ago. You need to get Newsleecher with Supersearch so you can easily search for items over multiple groups. The files are split up in multiple RARs and there are PAR files in case some are corrupted. You can recover with Smartpar if you have all the PAR files and not too many missing or corrupt RAR files. These are only necessary for very old posts from a few years back. I rarely download the PAR files because it is not needed. If a file ends up being corrupt I'll grab the PAR files.Is this still around?
This is the one where you used Outlook Express to connect to groups and download 100's of parts, and then compile them with WinRAR?
I can get content in minutes with Usenet vs hours with Torrent (unless you get lucky).