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3 stars
Version: Xnews 5.08
"Pardon me while I (BURP) freeze up."
Pros: - great configurable layout
- no better text reader
- multiple servers supported
- many different filters; love the score file
- capable of amazingly advanced features- for the beginner to the advanced user [manual is a huge negative]
Cons: - can you say HORRIBLE manual? It really needs to be enshrined somewhere as one of the worse written manuals ever for general consumption. Strictly for geeks; don't bother looking at it if you don't either have a computer degree or enjoy spending 80% of your time fiddling with software. Usenet help group is generally useless with 40-yr-old+ fanboi's spouting about RTFM.
- BLOATS with more than 20-50k headers and freezes up often. Great for usenet circa 1998 six-day retention; terrible for 2005 365-day retention. An anger management class or Agent highly recommended if you have a long retention provider and only 256 RAM. Even 512 RAM can be terribly slow.
- Forget binaries on this one, utterly useless except for the odd download or two. Heavy binary downloaders run, don't walk, away from this one.
- It's a one-man designed program subject to his whims and fancies...and abandonment. If he gets sick, bored etc. it's NewsXpress all over again [the developer just disappeared and never returned].
- support? Excuse me, give me a moment to stop laughing. Usenet group as stated, is populated by middle-aged fanboi's, developer is usually AWOL although there are some helpful souls out there you'll need to dodge the flames to find them.
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I think that this is one of the most useful user reviews I have ever read. It is very specific about what is wrong with the software. It's easy to decide if I want to try something if everyone says "I love it," but when when all a review says is "it sucks" I don't know if the program is a piece of crap or if the reviewer is just an idiot who can't find the "any key."
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