USENET Program Help Required

UK Owl · Oct 29, 2004

Hi all,

I am wondering if any of you can recommend me a newsreader program.

What I would like is one that when it comes to a binary attachment on my ISP's news-server that is incomplete, it will take the missing part of another news-server, e.g. a pay-per-download one from astraweb.

Any recomendations ?

PhotonBoy · Oct 29, 2004

Free Agent, or better still, Agent (which is not Free, as in $$).

was_jlh · Oct 29, 2004

UK, in Win I use PowerGrab, in linux I use Pan. They are both nice, but I'm not aware of the feature you requested existing in those two.

PrimiToad · Oct 29, 2004

Dohhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Double post.

PrimiToad · Oct 29, 2004

Winvn is probably the best I've ever seen and it's also free.
One can highlight an entire range of binary postings and it will assemble them automatically. I know other programs will too but this one seems to do it very well.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/software/winvn/winvn.html

MrMimizu · Oct 29, 2004

if you are looking to do binaries.
I would suggest that you go with NewsBin .
Agent is good for reading but if you are mainly concerned with getting files, NewsBin is the way to go.

PhotonBoy · Oct 30, 2004

I don't know of any program available that is able to assemble binary files using several news sources; IMO, if anyone could do it, it would be the company that writes/wrote Free Agent and Agent. YMMV.

UK Owl · Oct 30, 2004

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I will check them out.

PlayboyJoeShmoe · Oct 30, 2004

I use Agent and like it!

MrMimizu · Oct 31, 2004

Here's something taken from the NewsBin FAQ.
This is what I'm assuming UK Owl was looking for.
I have used Newsbin and know ppl who use newsbin with a paid for service news provider suplementing their isp.

21 - I run with mulitple servers, how can I prioritize my servers?
Prioritizing multiple servers: In the "Servers" window, you can click and drag your servers into the order you want. You should put your fastest server first, even if it does not have the best retention or completeness of posts. NewsBin will grab whatever it can from the first server and search the subsequent servers for additional headers or missing parts to multipart posts. Do not confuse this with the server setup screen accessable from the "Server" button on the toolbar. You want the window on the newsbin screen with two tabs labeled "Groups" and "Servers". The Servers tab is where you can re-order your servers.

UK Owl · Oct 31, 2004

Thanks for the input guys,

It sounds like MrMimizu's suggestion will do what I want i.e. 'In the "Servers" window, you can click and drag your servers into the order you want. You should put your fastest server first, even if it does not have the best retention or completeness of posts. NewsBin will grab whatever it can from the first server and search the subsequent servers for additional headers or missing parts to multipart posts.'

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