Overview:
Usenet News is a system where people can post
message on discussions of just about any subject, and others on the Internet can reply to
them. A news reader is a piece of software that can read these messages and present them
in an organized fashion.
Anawave's Gravity
- Version Number: 2.0
- Revision Date: December 1, 1997
- File Name: gravity.exe
- Byte Size: 2,250,718
- License: Shareware
- HomePage: http://www.anawave.com/gravity/index.html
- NT Compatible: Yes
- Description: Allows a person to view and contribute articles in the form of text
and graphics to over 15,000 newsgroups worldwide. Gravity is unique in that it was
designed exclusively for the 32-bit Windows 95/NT environment. This design feature
provides excellent multi-tasking capabilities for searching, sorting and completing most
newsreading tasks in the background. As a result, you get the information that you want -
blazingly fast.
Free Agent
- Version Number: 1.11
- Revision Date: April 25, 1996
- File Name: fa32_111.exe
- Byte Size: 1,052,700
- License: Freeware
- HomePage: http://www.forteinc.com/forte
- NT Compatible: Yes
- Description: A great freeware Newsreader with an easy to use interface with
autopost, autodecode of binaries, and a great subscribed group organization method.
Grabber
- Version Number: 1.2.33
- Revision Date: November 6, 1997
- File Name: grab3212.zip
- Byte Size: 999,720
- License: Shareware
- HomePage: http://www.trontech.com.au/grabber
- NT Compatible: Yes
- Description: Grabber allows users to easily collect binary attachments to USENET
news articles without having to use a newsreader. Sounds, pictures, movies can be
automatically decoded and stored without any manual intervention. Includes support for
multi part attachments, and MIME or uuencoded.
NewsMonger
- Version Number: 1.4.4
- Revision Date: November 5, 1997
- File Name: nmonger.exe
- Byte Size: 1,456,999
- License: Shareware
- HomePage: http://www.techsmith.com
- NT Compatible: Yes
- Description: A new Internet agent, provides complete, automatic monitoring of the
Internet's largest source of timely information, the USENET news service. NewsMonger finds
the handful of articles, out of the 200,000 posted each day, that you need to see.
Configure NewsMonger to notify you via E-mail when articles are discovered that match your
criteria. Keep watch over your company's domain name, products and trademarks or follow
emerging "hot topics". Focus in on a single newsgroup or monitor all 15,000+
groups. From keeping an eye on the competition to monitoring your own postings,
News Rover
- Version Number: 2.7
- Revision Date: October 6, 1997
- File Name: nr95027.exe
- Byte Size: 1,354,467
- License: Demo
- Homepage: http://www.NewsRover.com
- Description: An excellent newsreader, you can specify different interests, each
with their own criteria and newsgroups to search. The criteria can AND or OR, and be set
to exclude or include messages that meet the criteria. The program can also autojoin
multi-part messages, convert encoded binaries back to binaries, and even create thumbnail
previews of downloaded files for fast management of the files you've downloaded.
News Xpress
- Version Number: 2.01
- Revision Date: February 18, 1997
- File Name: nx201.zip
- Byte Size: 264,747
- License: Freeware
- NT Compatible: Yes
- Description: A window based newsreader with many advanced options such as
killfiles, window arrangements, and even to show toolbars or not, so you get maximum
viewing space. Also contains a built-in viewer for graphics files while they're
downloading.
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TIFNY
- Version Number: 1.2
- Revision Date: July 27, 1997
- File Name: tifny12.exe
- Byte Size: 2,346,883
- License: Shareware
- HomePage: http://www.tifny2.com
- Additional Software Required: Support
Files (1.3MB)
- NT Compatible: Yes
- Description: For industrial strength, intelligent, hands-free, image hunting on
the USENET newsgroups, TIFNY focuses its efforts by expertly sifting through spam and
other clutter by setting up keywords to search for relevant photographic material. Filter
out pictures you don't want by easily specifying author, organization, size, date or any
word in the article header. Maintains current article position for every newsgroup
searched and resumes where it left off on subsequent searches or if disconnected. Allows
you to quickly scan previously downloaded images, while displaying new photos as soon as
they're finished. Support for database image searching, photo editing, and slideshow
viewing.
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