Newsgroup Software

[Welshchris]

Im just curious on what people use to access newsgroup and what software they think is the best and easiest to use.

[SnoopZ]

For software i use Newsleecher which is good and i also hear Newsbin is good too, although both aren't free unless you can find a work around!

Too access newsgroups i now use Supernews and their current offer is $9.99 from this link.

http://www.supernews.com/superspecial.html

[Matt D]

I use Grabit (free).

[Kymmy]

For binary groups I've always used Newsbin, bought it coming upto 10 years ago when it was V3, now they're just about the officially release V6 which is a great bit of software.

Currently they're doing a one time special price of $15 with free upgrades for life. Registered members have access to all the betas as well

[Blackened]

Newsleecher's pretty much unbeatable IMO.

Loads NZB's and auto-pauses the pars if not needed then when downloaded, it extracts the file from the rars and deletes them. Not that doing this manually is hard work, but I set a d/l going to my server drive and go and sit in the lounge. When I want to watch it on the TV it's there, repaired and extracted ready to play. Perfect piece of software.

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by Blackened

Newsleecher's pretty much unbeatable IMO.

Loads NZB's and auto-pauses the pars if not needed then when downloaded, it extracts the file from the rars and deletes them. Not that doing this manually is hard work, but I set a d/l going to my server drive and go and sit in the lounge. When I want to watch it on the TV it's there, repaired and extracted ready to play. Perfect piece of software.

Yes i do that too during the night after my scheduled downloads finish, but i guess Newsbin will do that too.

[Welshchris]

any good free newsgroups?

[SnoopZ]

I don't know of any apart from Virgins, although i wouldn't call it good with what it offers.

What do you use at the moment?

[Blackened]

Originally Posted by Welshchris

any good free newsgroups?

No such thing in my honest experience.

[Kymmy]

It's a vast differnce between free and premium usenet suppliers..

Free tends to be 3-7 days retention with a lot of incompletes

Premium (starting about 7-10$ a month) tend to have 1000+ days retention and 99.9% complete

[Scrubbs]

I use nzbmatrix, grabit and virgin newsgroup. they all seem to get most of what I want.

this is sometimes useful as is this and this

[Rob]

I've had quite a few problems with grabit not starting properly, not unpacking as it should etc. I quite like SABnzbd as a client

[DaiNasty]

I use Xnews for casual reading but Newsleecher for serious downloads. I also have Grabit but find I use that a lot less since I discovered Newsleecher.