On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:04:05 -0600, vesd@ris <fake@chaos.com> wrote:
>I used some newsreaders. Newsleecher, newsbin pro, gave grabit and agent a
>try. Newsleecher has started lacking in development, updates, its supersearch
>feature has become unstable and not that good anymore. Newsbin is a very nice
>app, but i dont like 2 thing about it
>1) it takes lots of time to load a large group
>2) its internal search is limited to 240 days and it costs much, it doesnt
>support boolean wildmats to define search patters.
>I decided to test usenet Explorer. It got very scary oldschool interface and
>its kinda difficult to get ur way around all settings compared to newsbin pro,
>but its major advantages are:
>1) EXTREMELY fast opening of HUGE newsgroups. really fast. I was truly amazed
>2)internal search, retention 500 days, support of boolean wildmats,u can search
>by so many parameters
>On the other hand it sometimes drops downloading speeds when saving chunks to
>the diks. but sometimes not.
>In other words there is no ideal newsreader...
Must be the combination of taking the best out of several apps that
could be ideal. Think Free Agent is right. I also tested UE, but like
you I wasn't impressed by the stability of downloading huge file sets,
let alone the config complexity. FA looks good enough for messaging.
This will be the first one in many years....
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