Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 22 Apr 1997.
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News Rover -- Automated newsgroup search/download/decode - 39 0422094708 EWN
alt.ascii-art
· 1 message · 22 Apr 1997
Attention fans and frustrated consumers of the Usenet Newsgroups! Announcing
*** News Rover ***
No more manual shuffling through reams of useless text! No more manual
decoding of encoded images and other files! No more manual reconstruction
of multi-part messages! No more waiting for long downloads!
News Rover DOES ALL THIS:
o Scans newsgroups you specify while you sleep, work, and play.
o Automatically downloads messages and attached files so that they are
available for instant access when you are ready to review them.
o Decodes attached files of all types (UUencoded and MIME base64).
o Displays a picture gallery of collected thumbnail size images with
quick-action keys to delete, view full size, and save to permanent
collection.
o Selects messages based on include and/or exclude criteria to help
you find a needle in a haystack and eliminate spam. You can even
use complex selection expressions with AND, OR, NEAR and NOT.
o Supports multiple "interest groups," each with sets of newsgroups,
selection expressions, message database, and picture gallery.
o Remembers files already extracted and eliminates duplicates
automatically.
o Saves parts of multi-part files, searches for the missing
parts, and rebuilds the entire file when the last part arrives.
It even combines parts found on different days and in different
newsgroups.
o Operates on a schedule you set up to use your phone line only
when you don't need it.
o Automatically dials the provider and hangs up the phone when it
is finished.
o Works with almost all Internet providers and news servers.
o News Rover is multi-threaded so you can read messages and view
pictures while it downloads and decodes more messages.
News Rover was designed and written by real-life Usnet newsgroup junkies!
With News Rover the news is ready when you are!
To learn more and download your free demonstration copy, visit:
http://www.NewsRover.com
News Rover is getting rave reviews:
Tucows says "An excellent news reader" and gives it 4 1/2 cows out of 5.
Here are some actual comments from our customers:
E.A. says:
..GREAT program! I've been telling a lot of people about it. I tried a
few others like "Picture Agent" and "Extractor 97" which I downloaded
from SIMTEL, but they're not nearly as feature rich. It also blows
"Pluckit" out of the water... The schedule idea was fantastic! I've used
it several times while at work and it's ability to filter out the
garbage is wonderful... sure beats going through the messages one by one
in "Forte" like I used to. I wish you guys the best...
D.G. says:
I downloaded News Rover last night... I ordered this morning. I don't
know how much time I saved. For somebody who makes a living (programmer)
over the Internet, that's important. The install wizards worked
perfectly and I was up and running in less time than it would have taken
me to do two downloads manually. At any rate, I give your product two
thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!
T.B. says:
"Great Job!!! I tried your software for the first time today, and it
beats Plukit-32 hands down!! The biggest problem that I was having was
getting it to talk to my news server, but I figured it out. The software
is so easy to use you really don't have to read the manual. Again GREAT
JOB, makes my life a whole lot easier!!
D.I. says: I have ordered News Rover as I have been using the newsgroups
for downloading pics and spending more time messing about with the
process of doing than actually getting any results. The News Rover
immediately proved it's benefit by automating this process...
Thanks again for a great program.
K.N. says:
Ran great first time without reading instructions. I already ordered
the key, and I just downloaded it last night. I like that it will dial
and login automatically. I can't believe how easy it was to use.
Multiple groups were nice. Some groups get jpegs, and some get text
only and it is controlled very easily.
J.B. says:
New Rover is an OUTSTANDING program! Before News Rover, I was a
registered user of PluckIt for about a month. During that time, it went
through three or four upgrades (not for new features, but to fix
problems) and it STILL didn't work correctly! The major problems I had
were (not counting the problems that were fixed by the upgrades): [long
list of problems]
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