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News Reader

muninnmuninn Registered User regular
edited April 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I am looking for a reliable newsgroup reader, something that can handle 10 simultaneous connections and is preferably free. Had mixed results with newsbin. Any suggestions? (windows platform)

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  • bigtimeslackerbigtimeslacker Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    i used to use a program called newsleecher around a year ago, not sure of the current status of the program tho.

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  • embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I believe Mozilla Thunderbird should work just fine for Newsgroups.

    Edit: Yep.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    embrik wrote: »
    I believe Mozilla Thunderbird should work just fine for Newsgroups.

    Edit: Yep.

    Its abilities are very limited, to say the least. It won't join together binaries for you, for example.

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  • GrundlterrorGrundlterror Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Use Grabit! I've never had a problem with it and I've been using it for years.

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  • FristleFristle Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Grundlterror wrote: »
    Use Grabit! I've never had a problem with it and I've been using it for years.

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    I love GrabIt. But, if you have multiple news servers and you want to download a binary from all of them (splitting the workload between the servers) there's another program called BNR. Thus you might be able to fully download a multi-part article even though none of the news servers has all the parts, as long as each part can be found in at least one of the servers. Also it is faster, obviously, than downloading the whole thing from one server.

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  • GrundlterrorGrundlterror Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Fristle wrote: »
    Grundlterror wrote: »
    Use Grabit! I've never had a problem with it and I've been using it for years.

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    I love GrabIt. But, if you have multiple news servers and you want to download a binary from all of them (splitting the workload between the servers) there's another program called BNR. Thus you might be able to fully download a multi-part article even though none of the news servers has all the parts, as long as each part can be found in at least one of the servers. Also it is faster, obviously, than downloading the whole thing from one server.

    Grabit can handle simultaneous connections, as the OP asked... although I'm not sure if he specifically meant from one server.. so yeah if you are splitting it from multiple news servers you might want to get what Fristle suggested (which sounds really awesome, I hate when my news server doesn't have all the parts).

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