I had not bothered with them in a long time, but recent events led me to check them out (hoping to find more damn first 48 episodes).
Damn, I am averaging almost 40 gigs a day from newsgroups.
I have to burn at least 8 DVDs a day just to keep from filling up.
nzb files help a lot to avoid having to sift through shit to get what you want.
Also if you use linux, hellanzb is a nice simple package to put humpty dumpty (the rars) back together again.
BitTorrent has become the alternative rather than the primary.

: Maybe we should send you to a concentration camp.