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- Short: Newsreader Version 1.23 (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 1.23:
- - Multiple users allowed, each with their own location for storing news, and optional
- password protection
- - Specify different newsservers for posting and reading
- - Last used settings for expire type/time on killfiles are remembered and used as
- defaults
- - Toolbar buttons are disabled when appropriate (and some menuitems too)
- - Bug fixes; hangs whilst downloading, due to date parsing - is a lot more flexible now
-
- New for version 1.22:
- - Index reading *much* faster (about 2.5-3.0 times:)
- - Sizes of messages displayed (only for messages downloaded from now on)
- - New Logging Option - virtually all function calls logged to 'newscoaster.log' if you
- wish (shouldn't be used in general, but if you are experiencing bugs/crashes, sending
- a log will make things a lot easier for me:)
- - Bug fix; dates were parsed incorrectly in rare circumstances
- - Bug fix; enforcer hit when an empty message is composed
-
- New for version 1.21:
- - Bug fix; random characters sometimes appeared at end of messages written by the user
-
- New for version 1.20:
- - Wordwrapping on quoted text is set to a longer line length than on new text
- - A Killfile can be set to expire a certain number of days either since being created,
- or since it was last used
- - Killfiles editor now works a bit more intuitively
- - Killfiles editor displays creation and last used dates of each killfile
- - Option to archive newsgroup messages into a single text file
- - More resistance to crashes (before if there was a crash between having downloaded,
- and before quitting, vital information would not get saved meaning next time you
- downloaded, the old messages would be overwritten! There were other similar problems.
- Now this information is saved immediately after downloading, and other vital places.
- Additionally, even if something still messes up, messages should now never overwrite
- existing files.
- - Slight improvement in speed when downloading bodies of articles in online mode
- - Repeated clicking on column headings switches order of sorting
- - Bug fix; crashes related to online viewing
- - Bug fix; autorewrap sometimes didn't work correctly
- - Bug fix; the line below 'References:' in the header was ignored in some circumstances
- - Bug fix; headers which have line breaks in are now parsed correctly
- - Bug fix; enforcer hit when downloading news
- - Other minor improvements
-
- 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
- 24.12.99
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