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The original was posted on /r/usenet by /u/loungebob on 2023-08-28 23:23:14+00:00.

I’ve been using ngPost for the last couple of days and I have a few questions so I’d appreciate feedback from you guys using it or knowing what I do wrong independently.

I want my uploads to disappear so no one can find them unless I supply the corresponding nzb. That’s the ultimate goal. I’m not on a power trip, if it was up to me I’d give it to anyone but I can’t have them deleted by the trolls.

I don’t rar. The files go up in their glory wholesomeness and I use ngPost article obfuscation. According to u/mbruel that should be enough to hide it properly and it could only be found with the nzb.

I’ve uploaded a couple of files, large ones, and used binsearch and nzbindex to check if they found any of my uploaded files/parts. They did not. But that doesnt mean much since they might not even be indexing the groups I used.

Anyhow, I used a newsreader to go straight to the groups I’ve used to post the files and I could only find them when using the obfuscated subject line.

However, the found article then shows the attachment unobfuscated in plain english.

I don’t think that’s what I want, is it? My newsreader does not allow me to search for attachment names, only for subject lines or poster ID, but I assume there are some, that do? Or at least one could program such functionality. And even if not, why wouldn’t trolling people just download everything posted and then scan the attachments and have offending stuff deleted?

I guess my question is, why does ngPost not obfuscate the attachment name? File name obfuscation only seems to work when using rar.