By John Deprice
There are hundred of thousands of different newsgroups on theNet. Most newsgroup subscribers are members of multiple groups.Find out which tools are available to make managing thesesubscriptions easier.
Binary Boy
Binary Boy allows its users to download music, movies andpictures from news servers. Folks can browse manually orschedule a search to collect files while they sleep. Anintelligent subject cache speeds up searches and preservesbandwidth. The program comes witha a decoder that is isHyper-Threading capable.
Using Binary Boy, one can search using single words, wildcardsor use boolean logic and custom search rules can be applied toeach newsgroup. This is one of the few applications that allowsusers to decode damaged or incomplete mpg movies for previewing.yEnc, MIME, QP-Lite, Quote-Printable and BommaNews encodings arehandled automatically.
More Information: http://www.deprice.com/binaryboy.htm
News File Grabber
News File Grabber is a specialized newsreader which lets youeasily download and extract all kinds of attachments and binaryfiles (like photos, movies, pictures, mp3-files and other stuff)from the newsgroups on the USENET.
There are many decoding schemes supported, including MIME, UUE,base64 and yENC (also multi-parts with auto-combining).
The program supports multiple servers, up to 20 simultaneousdownload threads and secure server connections (SSL). You alsocan extract from EML/NWS-files stored on your hard disk.
More Information: http://www.deprice.com/newsfilegrabber.htm
Pluckit
Pluckit is an amazing Windows program that automaticallysearches newsgroups for binary attachments (pictures).It thendownloads and saves them for your pleasure.
As if by magic, Pluckit seeks out only messages with binaryattachments, grabs and saves them. Pluckit can display picturesindividually, in a slide show, or in a gallery! All you have todo is tell Pluckit what kinds of pictures you are interested inand then click the "Start Plucking" button.
Pluckit can acquire literally thousands of JPG's, GIF's, MPG's,AVI's, ZIP's, MP3's, yEnc's, RAR's, and other file types whilerunning completely unattended in the foreground or background.
More Information: http://www.deprice.com/pluckit.ht
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