Mac Magazin/MacEasy 16/Mac Magazin and MacEasy Magazine CD - Issue 16.iso/Online/ya-nw-211/Docs/YA-NW Revision History

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In the current version a number of icon buttons that were previously displayed as dimmed (because they were inactive, as the features they supported were not yet fully implemented) are now displayed undimmed. Those that still do nothing (the preference buttons, the PGP button in message windows) beep when clicked. Live with it.

2.1.1
• Filters created from message windows to filter your own posts and their
  followups are now added to all the open filters files, not just the
  YA-NewsWatcher Filters program-wide filter collection.
• Fixed the problem of the bogus unexpected error -43 when there is no
  pre-existing default YA-NewWatcher Filters file in the YA-NewsWatcher
  Settings folder.
• Fixed a problem with browsing filters from full group or new group
  windows.
• Fixed a problem with the Filter button not being properly hidden and
  unhidden in message windows when toggling Show/HideIconButtons.
• Added a check for the type and creator of filter files.

2.1.0
• Synched with John Norstad's 2.1.0 final. Note that because of the way
  John Norstad's replacement list manager works, it will often be necessary
  for a window to be resized after a change to the window font, or if an
  information or control panel (column labels in subject windows, icon
  buttons in most windows) is added or removed. This means the window will
  be resized even if its size has been locked with the padlock icon.
• Improved marking as read of cross-posted articles. Formerly, only
  articles that were opened had any cross-posts also marked as read.
  Now this also occurs when an article is saved to a file (including
  binary extraction) from a subject window.
• Filters are now once again saved (and optionally backed up) after
  editing.
• Added a filter icon button to message windows. When checked, a global
  filter will be created for the message you create. The filter is added
  to the program-wide filter set (stored in the file YA-NewsWatcher
  Filters). The filter is configured to use the topmost (highest priority)
  label, filter on the Subject: header, and expire in 10 days. These
  defaults should be editable in a future version. The default label is not
  employed in case the user has set the default to (killed).
• Fixed the problem of edits to filters being lost.
• Fixed a memory corruption problem that occured when all the articles
  in a newsgroup were killed by filters.
• Previously undocumented. You can change the text in STR# 128 number 276
  to modify what YA-NW puts at the end of the Path: header. The default
  value is !user.

2.0.6b4
• Reintroduced a form of labeling for icon buttons. When "Show Icon
  Labels"is enabled, and the mouse is over an icon button in a group,
  subject, or message window, a prompt explaining the function of the
  button is displayed in the area below the icon buttons.
• Added (still inactive) icon buttons to subject and group windows. Like
  the inactive PGP button added to message windows in a previous version,
  these buttons will become functional in due course. Note that because the
  subject and group windows are now taller, the minimum height for these
  windows is increased. It's possible that in opening group or locked size
  subject windows that the window will be misdrawn because it is not tall
  enough. Simply resizing the window will solve the problem.
• Added the option to filter on the Xref header.
• Added the option to have a horizontal scroll bar in subject windows.
  In previous versions, the width of the subject was truncated as needed
  to fit all the displayed fields within the subject window. The narrower
  the window was made, the more severely the subject was truncated.
  There's now a new subject windows options preference to instead use a
  horizontal scroll bar, and maintain the full subject width (or at least
  the first 79 characters of the subject).
• Fixed crashes that occured when multiple message windows were open at the
  same time.
• Fixed a missing CNTL problem in 2.0.6b3

2.0.5b3
• Modified the Article Filter dialog to change the various filter
  editing controls based on the type of header being for the filter.
  Previously, the Date and Lines headers were filtered like the rest,
  using the various string matching options. To do anything useful
  usually required a complicated regular expression that might or might
  not do what was desired. Now date and lines filters are handled
  differently. For dates you can choose to filter articles more than a
  given number of days old, or less than a given number of days old.
  YA-NW is smart enough to know that if you enter a number of 2 for
  "less than," and 4 for "more than," that you want to filter articles
  that are less than 2 OR more than 4 days old; while having the numbers
  reversed means you want to filter articles that are less than 4 AND
  more than two days old. Filtering on lines works in a similar manner.
  With dates there is an option to filter or not filter articles with
  missing or invalid date headers. For lines there is an option to filter
  or not filter articles with missing or zero line counts.

  Note that any old date or lines filters are made inoperative by this
  change. It's up to the user to open the Group Filters dialog for the
  various filter groups, find the old date and lines filters, and edit
  them appropriately.
• Changed the interpretation of filter priority. Previously, the first
  matching "kill" filter would kill an article, while the last matching
  non-kill filter would provide the article's label (or hilight color in
  previous versions). Starting with YA-NW 2.0.5, the rank of a label (its
  order in the list of labels) is used to determine whether a later filter
  will override a previous filter's labeling of an article.

  The new rules are as follows:
  1) A kill label always overrides any previous label. A kill label may
  itself be overridden by any subsequent filter. Thus it is possible to
  unkill an article with a later filter.
  2) Non-kill labels will only override a previous label of equal or lower
  rank.
• Because of the changes in how articles are killed and labeled, the status
  dialog displayed when filtering articles no longer shows how many
  articles have been killed. The subject window does still show this
  information at the top, and now also shows the number of articles labeled
  (which in this contect means given a label other than (killed) or
  (unlabeled)).

2.0.4b6
• Replaced the fake icon buttons in message windows with true (icon
  checkbox) controls. The regular checkboxes were also replaced with
  3-D versions, and the entire panel area is now drawn in light grey.
• The panel areas in windows are no longer redrawn in white when the
  window is moved to the background.
• Removed the hand cursor when dragging in subject windows.
• Added a test when emailing (only) an attached file for an empty
  part 0 message. If the part 0 description is empty it is not sent.
  You still need to supply a part 0 description for binary posts.
• If a filter group has no filters, filtering for that group is not
  done. This solves the problem of empty filter groups with the "Articles
  not matched are deleted" option set killing all messages.
• Changed how filters are handled. Previously, there was one set of group
  filters that were applied to all newsgroups. Now filters are associated
  with a user group file, and are saved in a new settings file that is
  created in a new "YA-NewsWatcher Settings" folder (which is created in
  the same folder as the active preferences file). This means you can have
  different sets of global, regional, and local filters defined for
  different sets of newsgroups. In the future, the settings files will also
  be used to store usergroup and newsgroup specific preferences.
• Changed filter "hilighting" again. Under the old system, filters were set
  to either kill, keep, or hilight articles. An arbitrary single marker
  character and arbitrary hilight color could be used to mark articles
  in subject windows. All three of these functions have now been combined
  into a Finder-like label function. Labels are chosen from a popup menu
  in the Article Filter dialog. All filters will label a matching
  article in some way. There are two special labels: "(unlabeled)" which
  simply passes the article unmodified (as the keep option did before),
  and "(killed)" which functions like the old kill option. The remaining
  32 labels are completely user configurable in the preferences dialog.
  The color and label text can be edited, and the 32 labels can be dragged
  to change their order.
• Owing to the above two changes in how filters are handled, the old filter
  files will no longer work. The new version of Filter Converter (1.0.2)
  can convert existing YA-NewsWatcher or VA-NewsWatcher filter files to
  the new format.
• If "Show line counts" is enabled for Subject windows, when saving a file
  (binary or otherwise) to disk, the NewsWatcher Status dialog will show
  progress information (i.e. "Saving File 1 of 2 line 200 of 566").
• Changed the Attachment line in message windows to indicate the sizes of
  the attached file's data and resource forks.
• Fixed a problem that erroneously caused all the articles in a group to
  be marked as read. If the unread article count was greater than the
  number of articles being fetched, and if all the articles fetched from
  the server were killed, then the entire group would be marked as read.
• Changed status display during filtering to show as killed all articles
  that are removed from a subject using the "Articles not matched are
  deleted" filter group option.
• Fixed a problem with Bcc email recipients not being properly blinded
  by all mail servers. To solve this problem, the Bcc header is now no
  longer sent as part of the message (fix supplied by John Norstad).
• Fixed a problem with erroneously marking as read all messages in a
  newsgroup.  If there are initially more unread articles in the group
  than are being fetched, and all the fetched articles are either killed
  or not on the server, then all the unread articles were erroneously
  marked as read (fix partially supplied by John Norstad).
• Fixed a problem in b5 with an incorrect CDEF. Also recompiled with the
  latest bug fixes to the CW7 compiler.

2.0.3b0
• Resurrected the old "Sort Hilighted to Top" option and removed the
  old "Sort by Hilight Color" sorting option. When "Sort Hilighted to Top"
  is enabled, articles in subject windows are first sorted by hilight
  color, and then by the regular sorting criterion (author, subject, etc.)
  The reverse sort option does not affect sorting by hilight color.
• As part of the above change, and to minimize future compatibility
  problems, a number of preferences are now stored in a private YA-NW
  resource and are no longer shared with VA-NW. The effect of this is
  that several preferences will have to be re-entered. They are:
  In "Newsreading Options" - "Spacebar Digest Shortcut"
  In "Subject Windows" - "Initial Default Sort Mode"
  In "Filter Options" - "Disable Filtering", "Show Killed Articles",
      and "Expand Threads That Contain Hilighted Articles"
• Added balloon help for the labels in subject windows.
• Added the option to hide the status window (except at startup, since
  the window is shown before the preferences are read). When the status
  window is hidden, and there's therefore no cancel button to press, you
  can still cancel a long process by pressing command-period.
• Changed the (optional) expired filters notification to display in the
  status window, beep, and then pause 5 seconds rather than putting up an
  alert.
• Solved a problem with changes in preferences not being properly detected
  by the "intelligent" prefs saving feature.
• Fixed a bug that erroneously deleted the last item in the full group list
  when other items were being deleted. There was a comparable bug in the
  original NewsWatcher code that did the same thing when groups were
  automatically deleted when they were no longer on the news server. That's
  been fixed too.
• Fixed a bug in the LDEF and a few other places that caused crashes
  when dealing with long subject lines, etc. The code foolishly assumed
  that header text would be no longer than 255 characters, which is no
  longer true.
• Changed for the second time how the test for the presence of the original
  Color Picker is performed. The original method should have worked, but
  failed on at least one user's PowerBook 100. The method used in 2.0.2
  used Gestalt, which unfortunately won't work if the new Color Picker
  extension isn't installed, which means that people with older System
  software are erroneously excluded from using the Color Picker. So I'm
  back to a variant of the one used in 2.0.1. Someday Apple will make stuff
  like this reasonably reliable and foolproof. Not today however.
• Fixed the old cosmetic defect of Filters menu items being enabled when a
  group or subject window is topmost and there's not exactly 1 item
  selected. Also updated the balloon help for the menu appropriately.

2.0.2 Final
• Increased the maximum length of header that can be fetched from the
  server from 255 to 4095 characters. This will help to alleviate a
  problem some people have encountered when trying to filter using the
  References: header (filtering failed when the long header was
  truncated at 255 characters).
• Added the ability to filter on the NNTP-Posting-Host header. This makes
  it easier to kill spammed or inappropriate commercial posts from badly
  managed sites without having to download and deal with the much longer
  Path: header.
• Modified filtering status code to be a bit more efficient and also to
  give time to other applications more often.
• Prefs and filters file backup and saving is more intelligent. The prefs
  file won't be saved (and optionally backed up) if nothing has changed
  (for example, when you could not connect to the news server). Because
  the article cache is kept in the prefs file, the save and backup is
  usually done if you open any newsgroups. Similarly, the filter file won't
  be saved (and optionally backed up) if the filters are not edited or
  expired.
• Added the traditional hand cursor when dragging items in a list.
• Added the option to immediately quit if unable to connect to the news
  server.
• Fixed the problem of the Shift and Option keys not being recognized
  when sending a message.
• Fixed a memory problem when cancelling a post or email message with
  an attached file. Also improved error handling when posting binaries.
• Fixed the detection of the availability of the Color Picker routines by
  using Gestalt instead of MyTrapAvailable (which should have worked but
  didn't).
• Changed sorting by hilight color for non-color Macs to simply test a
  given hilight color against black. A future version of YA-NW may enable
  true sorting by hilight color for all Macs, even those without the Color
  Picker routines.

2.0.1 Final
• Fixed a number of schoolboy howlers:
  1) Moved the misplaced line of code that "fixed" the handling of the
     nested Article Filter dialog from within the Filter Groups dialog
     when a new filter was being created and edited.
  2) Corrected a typo that caused many multi-part plain text messages
     to be misidentified as MIME Base64 attachments and therefore wrongly
     truncated when displayed in an article window.
  3) Corrected the erroneous double Latin-1 translation of filenames of
     binary attachments in new messages, and added proper Latin-1
     translation for all parts of non-encoded attached files.
• Did some more bomb-proofing of the Cleanup822Date function to
  better prevent problems on machines that don't have their location
  set correctly in the Map and Date & Time control panels. This may
  solve some of the out of memory problems and crashes experienced by
  a few people. Now, when show date and/or time are selected in prefs,
  but the machine location has not been set, the date and time will
  be displayed as ? in subject windows.
• Made a number of changes to the color related code to better deal with
  old, non-ColorQuickdraw machines and multiple screen depth monitors.
• Fixed some spelling errors/typos in dialogs or help balloons.

2.0 Final
• Fixed problem with old scores and filter hilighting/marking not being
  reset when refiltering an open window. Also fixed the related problem of
  read articles not being removed when a subject window is refiltered and
  the preference to remove read articles is selected.
• Fixed the old, old problem of the group filter moveable modal dialog
  becoming erroneously non-modal after it had been used to open a
  filter dialog.
• Remedied some of the other problems with the filter group dialog
  relating to crashes when dragging or scrolling items in the list.
• Fixed the problem of filtering by additional header (References, etc.)
  not working for global and regional filter groups.
• Added a work-around for the 16000 limit in the full group list. Instead
  of truncating the list (both as displayed in the program and saved on
  disk) to 16000 items, now the full newsgroup list is maintained and you
  can see and subscribe to the first 16000 groups. You can delete the
  groups that you don't want, creating slack at the bottom of the list for
  the groups that could not be displayed previously. When the full group
  list is rebuilt, the deleted groups are added back in, and can then be
  left in the list or again deleted to make room for any undisplayed groups
  at the end of the alphabet. Note that if you've already run into the
  16000 limit, you need to rebuild your full group list to fetch the names
  of all the newsgroups, since previous versions of NewsWatcher only saved
  the first 16000 to your preferences file.

  This method of dealing with long newsgroup lists is not an elegant one.
  There are a number of better ways to deal with more than 16000 new
  groups. All would require significantly more changes to the program. This
  solution, though not pretty, is available NOW and will be useful to many
  people.

  IMPORTANT: Because of the way the program checks for new newsgroups, you
  can't delete any groups that have appeared in the last day or two and
  have them stay deleted. The next time you check for new groups at
  startup, they will be added back in. Just wait two days and then delete
  any unwanted new groups. In the meantime, any older groups that you
  delete will stay deleted until you rebuild the full group list. This is a
  bit annoying, but it's part of a safety feature that prevents new groups
  from being overlooked.

  LATE BREAKING NEWS: John Norstad has announced that he has reconsidered
  his earlier decision not to modify the original NewsWatcher to handle
  larger group lists. He now plans to have a beta version with support for
  larger group lists available sometime in late September.
• Fixed another problem with the detection of MIME Base64 attachments.
• Fixed the bug that caused the Group Filter dialog to be presented when
  "Regionally Filter This Author" was selected while an article window
  was topmost instead of the correct Article Filter dialog.
• Spell checked this document. :-) Maybe one day it'll be proofread too!

2.0b30
• Changed method of backing up prefs and filters files, to work better
  with launching utilities like QuicKeys that keep track of files. Also
  added status dialogs during the backup operations.
• Made sure that the names of attached files are converted to the Latin1
  character set before being added to the subject line or the begin line
  of a uuencoded attachment.
• Added a status dialog when a subject window is being resorted or
  refiltered.
• Changed the status dialog displayed when filtering is occurring to
  show the number of filter groups being applied. Previously, the
  "processed" number was incremented once per filter group, leading to
  the number of articles processed being a multiple of the total number
  articles in the subject window. Now this number repeatedly counts up from
  0 to the number of articles in the subject window for each filter group,
  and is reset back to zero for the next filter group.
• Added a checkbox to Subject Window Options preferences dialog to have
  read messages removed from subject windows when they are refiltered.
• Added an item to the Special menu to disable or re-enable the
  truncation of messages that seem to be binary posts. Sometimes the
  logic used to detect binary posts fails, causing normal text messages
  to be truncated. This menu option lets you (presumably temporarily)
  disable truncation so that the message can be read, or printed or ...
• Fixed detection of BinHex encoded binaries that was broken when Base64
  detection was added.
• Reduced the time articles are kept in the cache from 60 to 30 days.
• Added the option to flush (empty) the article cache when quitting by
  holding down the option key when selecting Quit. There's a confirmation
  dialog so that you can change your mind about emptying the cache. A large
  cache can cause some out of memory errors, since the number of articles
  actually added to a subject window for processing and actual display is
  the number fetched PLUS the number in the cache. The latter number can be
  very large, causing apparently inexplicable memory problems. Note that,
  if you have the option to backup your prefs file enabled, you can "undo"
  the cache flushing by using the backup prefs file the next time YA-NW is
  launched (the article cache is stored in the prefs file).
• Changed how killing by scores works. Originally, as the various groups of
  filters were encountered, as soon as an article's score dropped below the
  kill point, the article was killed. Now it is not, and there is a final
  pass through all the articles after all filters have been applied to kill
  or not kill based on score. This may permit somewhat more selective
  killing. For example, you might want to kill all posts with "money" in
  the subject lines unless you're reading alt.make.money.fast. You would
  then set up a global filter to score at -500 all articles with money in
  the subject line, and a local filter in alt.make.money.fast to score
  these articles at +500. Then the posts will be killed everywhere except
  in alt.make.money.fast (assuming the default kill threshold score of 0).
• The filter file (kill file) is now saved to disk whenever a filter is
  edited, after the dialog's OK button has been clicked. If the backup
  filter and prefs file is enabled, the filter file is only backed up the
  first time the filter file is saved. Therefore, the backup filter file
  preserves the filters that were defined at the start of a newsreading
  session, while the active file is updated after each edit.

2.0b29
• Added support for saving files or extracting binaries from multiple
  open windows. By holding down the shift key while selecting Save from
  the File menu, all open windows of the same kind as the topmost window
  will be saved. For example, if a subject window is topmost, all the
  selected articles in all open subject windows will be saved to disk. If
  a user group window is topmost, all the user group windows will be saved.
  Similarly, if shift is held down when choosing Extract Binaries, all
  selected articles in all open subject windows will have their binaries
  extracted. In all cases, the way this works is that the topmost window
  is processed normally, then the windows are cycled through one by one,
  until you're back at the original window. During the cycling, whenever
  the new topmost window is the same kind as the original topmost window,
  the save or extract binaries operation is performed on it. Note that this
  all happens sequentially. There is still no thread manager support for
  doing multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Similarly, you can send all the open message windows by holding the shift
  key when clicking on the Send button or selecting Send from the News
  menu. This works by rotating through the open windows as described above.
  The difference, of course, is that each message window is closed after it
  is successfully sent.
• Added a test and error alert when an attempt is made to attach a file
  that has 0 parts (for example, a uuencoded Mac application or resource
  file).
• Fixed a problem with editing killfiles (the expiration date was being
  reset to 1 if it was non-zero).
• Fixed a problem with Filter Converter (if you over-wrote an existing file
  the file's type and creator weren't changed). Note that the kill file
  format is the same in 2.0b29 as in 2.0b28, so you do NOT have to run
  Filter Converter again to convert a 2.0b28 kill file (and in fact
  attempting to do so will only create an older VA-NW compatible kill file,
  and not one that will work with the last two versions of YA-NW). You need
  only use Filter Converter to convert a VA-NW or a pre-2.0b28 YA-NW kill
  file to the format used by YA-NW 2.0b28 and 2.0b29, or to convert a
  YA-NW 2.0b28 and 2.0b29 kill file to a format that can be used by
  VA-NW 2.0b27.1 (see the comments below for version 2.0b28).
• Added "regional" hierarchical filters, and removed filter menu commands
  from the Edit menu into the newly added Filters menu. So, there are now
  three classes of filters:

  1) The global filter, with a filter group name ".". Any filters in this
  group are applied first. The global filter group matches every newsgroup.

  2) Regional hierarchical filters, with filter group names of the form
  "name1.name2.". These filter groups match any newsgroup whose name starts
  with the filter group name, excluding the final period. For example, if
  you have the newsgroup comp.sys hilighted when you select "Edit Regional
  Group Filters" you will get a dialog showing all the filters defined for
  the regional filter group named "comp.sys.". This filter group will match
  the newsgroups comp.sys, comp.sys.mac, comp.sys.mac.comm, and
  comp.sys.next. These filters are applied in order of length. For example,
  suppose there are filters defined for the filter groups "comp.sys." and
  "comp.sys.mac.". When filtering the newsgroup comp.sys.mac.comm, first
  the "comp.sys." filters would be applied, then the "comp.sys.mac."
  filters.

  To enable editing of the regional group filters for the parent of the
  selected group, hold down the option key when selecting one of the
  regional filter menu items. For example, as described above, if you have
  the newsgroup comp.sys hilighted when you select "Edit Regional Group
  Filters" you will get a dialog showing all the filters defined for the
  regional filter group named "comp.sys.". If instead you hold down the
  option key while selecting "Edit Regional Group Filters" you will get a
  dialog showing all the filters defined for the regional filter group
  named "comp.".

  3) Local filters, with names identical to a newsgroup name. These apply
  only to the newsgroup named, and are applied last.
• Added a Filters menu item to refilter the current subject window (to
  apply any filters that were changed or added since the window was
  opened).
• You no longer get an empty subject window when all the articles in the
  window have been killed.

2.0b28
• IMPORTANT! To prevent future problems caused by incompatibilities
  between the kill file formats used by YA-NewsWatcher and VA-NewsWatcher,
  I have changed the kill file type used and expected by YA-NewsWatcher.
  The old file type was 'KILL' while the new type is 'FILT'. Included
  with YA-NewsWatcher is a simple droplet named "Filter Converter" for
  converting kill files. You will need to run it to convert your present
  (YA-NewsWatcher 2.0b27 or VA-NewsWatcher) kill file to the form
  expected by YA-NewsWatcher 2.0b18 and later. You can also convert a
  YA-NewsWatcher 2.0b28 kill file to the format expected by VA-NewsWatcher
  2.0b27.1. HOWEVER, when you do this you will lose the marker hilight
  information for all your filters, since this is stored in a different
  format. Converting in the other direction does not lose any information.
  To convert a filter file, simple drag it on top of the Filter Converter
  application. You will get a standard file saving dialog. Choose a name
  and location for the converted file. Note that you cannot chose the same
  name and location as the file being converted.
• Synched with John Norstad's 2.0.0 final. Now that original NewsWatcher
  has gone final, YA-NW can use more normal version numbers for beta
  releases, and not have to add on the extra .0 .1 etc.
• Fixed yet another problem with uncollapsed message threads in subject
  windows. I _hope_ that's all of the pesky buggers.
• Threads are now sorted according to their contents, and not just the
  first message in a thread. So, if you sort by score, and a message
  in the middle of a thread has a high score, that high score will move
  the whole thread towards the top of the list.
• Fixed an apparent problem with updating the sample hilight color box
  after it had been edited with the color picker.
• Fixed not being able to toggle the spacebar digest option in the
  preferences dialog.
• Added the option to expire filters after a specified number
  of days has passed. The default is still perpetual filters,
  indicated by setting the expire time to 0. Filters are
  actually expired when YA-NW starts up and reads the killfile.
  An alert will optionally be displayed at startup when
  filters have been expired. This is enabled under "Filter Options."
• Changed the method used to count words in message part 0 of
  binary posts, to solve a crash on some old System 7.0 machines.
• Fixed the gibberish prompt text in the filter dialog's color picker
  dialog. The prompt text is only displayed when using the old style color
  picker.
• The preferences and filter files are now optionally backed
  up before being saved when YA-NewsWatcher quits. This is
  enabled or disabled under "Miscellaneous Options."

2.0b27.5
• Fixed a problem with the acur resource not being preloaded and
  nonpurgeable, which caused crashes on some machines.
• Added detection of Base64 encoded binary files, and decoding via a new
  helper application "Yet Another Base64 Decoder." Unlike MPack, this new
  decoder will handle (indeed it requires) the concatenation of all parts
  of the original message, and it will run in the background without user
  interaction after being sent an apple event.
• Relabeled some preferences for greater clarity.
• Changed the default sort order for dates, markers, and scores. Now
  normal order is new, marked, and high first, respectively.
• Fixed a problem with subject window in which threads were not kept
  together and expanded/collapsed properly if the collapse threads option
  was off or the expand hilighted option was on.
• Fixed a problem with marker characters with ASCII codes above 127 not
  being drawn in subject windows.
• The asterisk character drawn in subject windows when a collapsed thread
  contains a marked article is now drawn in the default hilight color.
• Improved saved message file compatibility with the other versions of
  NewsWatcher. If you open a message file saved with one of the other
  versions, you'll get an alert telling you that some of the settings
  may have been changed.

2.0b27.4
• Fixed testing of clicks in subject window labels to only register
  a click within the actual label text (and not the full width of the
  column). Also added hilighting of clicked labels and test to see if
  the mouse button was released within the label text.
• Fixed a problem for with the "you can't sort by author/date" alerts.
• Removed no longer used "sort recent to top" and "sort hilighted to
  top" options which are superseded by full date and hilight color
  sorting.
• Added filtering by lines, newsgroups, and path headers.
• Added sorting by line count.
• Added new preference for sorting in descending order. For sorting by
  date, this means threads with newer articles are at the top of the
  window. For sorting by subject or author, the z's are at the top and
  numbers at the bottom. Reverse sorting can be changed on a window
  by window basis by using the "Sort in Descending Order" menu item
  in the hierarchical Sorting menu. When subject window labels are
  shown, there is a '+' or '-' character at the far left of the label
  area, indicating if sorting is currently in ascending or descending
  order. Clicking on the character toggles the sort order.
• Moved the sorting options to the subject window options dialog.
• Filter hilight colors are now fully editable. You can choose as many
  different colors as you wish. The default hilight color can be set in
  the Filter preferences dialog, and individual filter hilight colors
  can be edited in the Filters preferences dialog. Because of this
  change, when sorting by hilight color you are sorting first by hue,
  then by lightness.
• Because of the change in how filter hilight colors are handled, the
  filter file format has been changed. When you first run the new
  version of YA-NW with an old killfile, you'll get a prompt warning you
  of the file format change. The old killfile will be saved, so that
  you can revert to using an older version of YA-NW or VA-NW. (You
  will have to change the type of the saved file from 'KILB' to 'KILL'.)
• GLOBAL KILLFILES!!!!! Holding down the option key when clicking on the
  Edit menu changes "Edit Group Filter…", "Filter this Author…" and
  "Filter this Subject…" to  "Edit Global Group Filter…", "Globally
  Filter this Author…" and "Globally Filter this Subject…". These
  commands are used to edit a set of special global filters that are
  applied to all newsgroups (after an local filters have been applied).

  The global filters are applied first, then the local filters.
  Processing of matches within a set of filters is also
  sequential according to the position of the filter in the
  group's filter list. This means two things:
      1) the FIRST matching "kill" filter wins, eliminating the
      article from being displayed. This can not be undone by a
      subsequent hilight or keep filter.
      2) the LAST matching hilight filter wins, setting the hilight
      color for the article.
  The local filters are processed last so that their hilighting will win
  out over any performed by the global filters.
• Added "nn killed" to the status panel in subject windows.
• Modified the format of anonymous remailer messages sent using
  Cypherpunk remailers to place the Anon-To or Anon-Post-To header at the
  beginning of the body text using the special :: line in order to work
  around a bug in the remailer software. The headers were further
  modified to ensure that the References header line is also contained in
  the anonymous post or email message as appropriate. See the file
  "Anonymity and YA-NewsWatcher" for more information on what is and is
  not included in anonymous messages.
• You can now assign weighting factors to filters. As an article is
  filtered, a running sum of the weighting factors for all matching
  filters is kept as a score for the article. It is then possible to sort
  by score or kill based on score (for example, all articles with a score
  of less than 0). There are new preferences in the Subject Options
  preferences dialog to enable or disable showing the score in subject
  windows (showing will probably be off in everyday use, but turning it
  on may be helpful in debugging filters) and in the Filter Options
  preferences dialog (where the threshold for killing based on score is
  set). There is also a new Sorting menu item to permit sorting by score.

2.0b27.3
• Marker character in subject windows is now drawn in bold.
• Various remaining conversion errors fixed.
• Fixed the problem of anonymous posts having no subject lines
• Fixed a problem with date displays in article windows.
• Default anonymous remailer addresses changed from the obsolete
  [e-mail] to [e-mail]
• Updated anonymous remailer help and information files
• Fixed a problem with the Balloon help strings for the post selected
  parts dialog.
• Clicking on the marker, subject, author, or date labels in subject
  windows changes the sorting to by subject or by author (and the label
  is underlined to indicate the sorting mode). Shift clicking the
  currently underlined marker switches sorting to by article number (and
  no labels are underlined).
• Added sorting of subject windows by date and marker hilight color.
  Also removed the "author threads" sorting option.
• Added a new "Subject Window Options" pane to the preferences dialog,
  which contains most of the preferences that affect subject windows.
• Added a preference to disable by default the display of column labels
  in subject windows.
• Labels in subject windows can be enabled or disabled on the fly using
  the "Show Labels/Hide Labels" item in the Edit menu.

2.0b27.2
• Fixed various conversion errors that occurred in VA-NW 27.0 (missing
  prefs dialog items, misformatted message window controls, missing
  balloon help, etc.)
• Added an option to use a marker character to mark hilighted articles
  in subject windows (in addition to being able to choose a hilight
  color).
• Added column labels in subject windows, and changed the order of the
  columns.
• Added a preference item to enable or disable the displaying of times
  in subject windows, and changed the functioning of the similar dates
  preference to enable or disable only the date display independent of
  the time.
• Added the ability to post a selected range of parts of an attached
  binary file, to deal with the problem of having to repost all the parts
  if one or more parts are damaged or incomplete. If the option key is
  held down when clicking on the Send button (or choosing Send from the
  menu), a dialog appears in which the range of parts to be sent can be
  entered.
• Added support for using anonymous remailers for email or usenet
  messages. (See the file Anonymity and YA-NewsWatcher for more
  information on this.)
• Fixed a problem with creating killfiles. Formerly, if no valid
  killfile was found on startup, a new killfile was created in the
  Preferences folder in the System folder. Now it is created in the same
  folder as the current YA-NW preferences file.
• Increased the number of available filtering hilight colors to 24.
  (Thanks to Bob Boonstra and his daughter for the colors).