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Short: Newsreader Version 1.19 (MUI)
Uploader: Mark Harman (mdwh2@cam.ac.uk)
Author: Mark Harman (mdwh2@cam.ac.uk)
Type: comm/news
NewsCoaster is a newsreader, which requires MUI. NewsCoaster is shareware, and
the unregistered version if limited to viewing a maximum of two newsgroups. Please see
the documentation for details on registering.
NewsCoaster homepage at http://newscoaster.tripod.com/
My personal homepage at http://mark_harman.tripod.com/
New for version 1.19:
- Faster downloading! (Possibly up to 2x speed on a fast connection)
- Online viewing - NB This is *EXPERIMENTAL* and may have a few bugs in it..
- Option to discard messages after a certain number of days
- Select All/None/Toggle/With From/With Subject option
- Rot13 encoding option (decoding to follow..)
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New for version 1.18:
- Bug fixes; under some circumstances, NewsCoaster would crash upon downloading
certain messages
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New for version 1.17:
- New 'supersede message' item, to overwrite your old posts on a newsserver
- New statistics feature!
- Better multithreading when download news; items appear as soon as they are
downloaded; you can delete messages whilst downloading too
- Option to download news for the currently selected newsgroup
- Very simple ARexx port (more commands to come!)
- Doubleclick on URLs to launch in a browser (via external ARexx script)
- Can now locate news messages elsewhere (ie, doesn't have to be in
NewsCoaster folder)
- Copying to the same folder (ie, to duplicate message) is now allowed
- Slightly faster moving/copying/deleting routines
- Hopefully a bug fix in moving/deleting for some systems
- Other minor improvements
New for version 1.16:
- Configurable colours for Message View window :)
- Can configure which headers are to be displayed
- Toolbar on main window
New for version 1.15:
- Bug fix - corrupted messages downloaded when a killfile was used, or messages with
duplicate messageIDs found
- Bug fix - dates may have been written incorrectly when posting messages using a
machine with non-English language
New for version 1.14:
- Faster downloading.
- Improved searching - in headers, body or entire message.
- New option to add to the killfile based on a message (eg, kill on author, responses,
etc), to make creating new killfiles much easier and quicker.
- Option to reset article pointers in newsgroups.
- Option to read in text from a file into the message you are writing.
- Option to read in signature from file.
- Bug fix - duplicate messageIDs weren't always being ignored.
- Bug fix for dates on machines with non-English languages (you must select 'Update
Index' on you newsgroups for this to take effect on old messages).
- Aborting during move/copy/delete messages now works.
- Option to update all indices. You can also abort updating an index, too.
- Faster moving/deleting routines.
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements.
New for version 1.13:
- Bug fix - when downloading from groups, in rare cases the article ID information was
parsed incorrectly.
- Group list is now not automatically sorted, allowing you to rearrange them as you
wish (though you can do a sort if you wish).
- Bug fix - now when you change the ordering of the groups list, NewsCoaster doesn't
reread in the messages for groups unnecessarily.
- Faster copying/moving/deleting routines.
New for version 1.12:
- New killfile - will detect a number given as the last word in Subject, eg, 'Make
lots of money 1206' Such numbers usually indicate an advert or other off-topic
announcement. You can now tell NewsCoaster to avoid these (when the number is 100 or
greater).
- Recognises '|' as a quoting character (before was just '>', ':' and '!').
- Bug fix when copying from a view window and pasting into a write window.
New for Version 1.11:
- Added 'Deleted' folder.
- Added button on View window to delete current message and move onto next message.
- When a new message is created, the folder no longer changes to 'Outgoing' (thus
speeding things up, too).
- Move/Copy doesn't require a folder change to the destination folder (speeding up
things again).
New for Version 1.1:
- Email SMTP support! You can now reply to authors by email aswell as or instead of
following up messages.
- Search facilities.
- 'Pop up' window on Write window to easily add/remove newsgroups to post and followup
to.
- Recognition of 'Followup-To: poster'.
- Move and Copy messages to any folder.
- Colours for quoted text have been set to something more sensible (no pink! -
configurable colours will hopefully follow shortly..)
- Fixed Authentification bug.
- Fixed Move bugs when sending messages.
- Changed shortcut of 'Close Window' on View window from 'c' to 'w', so you can copy
text! (oops..)
- Left and right cursor keys now move between messages on View window.
Mark Harman
26.11.99