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5 stars
Version: News File Grabber 4.6.0.3
"News File Grabber delivers on promised features"
Pros: Handles large newgroups numbering in the millions
Cons: Interface is a work in progress but still effective
Summary: Now that some newsgroups have millions of files listed, accessing large newgroups can be painfully slow. This program efficiently allows quick searches while also providing SSL and multiple connections for faster downloading. Accessing more than one news server simultaneously, however, however, has yet not worked for me although the program makes it easy to shift between news servers.
The interface is logical but I would like some improvements. For example, I would like to select the columns I want to view and their order in the display, similar to the way you can in Windows explorer. You can search on the listed entry, but not yet on file name, author, date, etc, although you can column sort. I would also like to be able to search within a search and also sort within a sort.
Selecting articles could be improved. Control-A does not work to select all, although you can select all by using the menus. I would really like to tag entries as you can with Xnews or with the old DOS Xtree program. The standard Windows method is used, but if you forget to hold down the control-key when highlighting a selection, you loose all your previous highlights.
I have several other quibbles, similar to those above, but the author seems to be gradually fixing things. Altogether, News File Grabber is an impressive piece of programming, apparently by a single programmer, especially in the efficient way it handles very large newsgroups.
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