Newsreader checks for crossposts/duplicates

[Andy]

Anyone know of a newsreader that merges all your subscriptions (within your
control, that is) so that you don't d/l two of the same thing?

I subscribe to several rail ng's which contain pics of locomotives and
rolling stock, and such a feature would be useful.

I use OE for text, but have Agent Version 2 and Gravity 2.6 available, but
can't see where those do it except Gravity skips ones with the same name if
you decode them to the same folder. Of course if you move them from the
folder (which I do), then it will just download them again.

Thanks

 

[Simon Whitaker]

Anyone know of a newsreader that merges all your subscriptions
(within your control, that is) so that you don't d/l two of the same
thing?

I subscribe to several rail ng's which contain pics of locomotives
and rolling stock, and such a feature would be useful.

I use OE for text, but have Agent Version 2 and Gravity 2.6
available, but can't see where those do it except Gravity skips ones
with the same name if you decode them to the same folder. Of course
if you move them from the folder (which I do), then it will just
download them again.

Thanks

Try Xnews, it will download files of the same name and rename them. For
example. If you had image.jpg in a folder then the next file of that
name would be downloaded and renamed image_0.jpg, then image_1.jpg and
so on. The beauty of Xnews is that you can send headers to different
virtual que folders and in turn have these ques download their files to
separate real folders and all downloading at the same time. Subject to
the number of connections your newsserver allows. Plus of course you
can have multiple news servers downloading at the same time. Xnews is a
remarkable peace of software and I recommend it to anyone.

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

 

[Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer]

Anyone know of a newsreader that merges all your subscriptions (within your
control, that is) so that you don't d/l two of the same thing?

I subscribe to several rail ng's which contain pics of locomotives and
rolling stock, and such a feature would be useful.

I use OE for text, but have Agent Version 2 and Gravity 2.6 available, but
can't see where those do it except Gravity skips ones with the same name if
you decode them to the same folder. Of course if you move them from the
folder (which I do), then it will just download them again.

Thanks

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Andy


email: sweetandylicious at eml dot cc

Try Binary News Reaper - free from www.bnr2.org. It checks cross-
posted articles & will only download 1 copy, renames duplicate
filenames, supports multiple servers including multiple server
connections & server priorities (so you can have a free server as the
main one for downloading with paid/data limited servers downloading
any fills.

It also allows you to combine groups into metagroup/s, so you need
only have one article list open. Cross-posted articles will only
show up once in these.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Anyone know of a newsreader that merges all your subscriptions (within your
control, that is) so that you don't d/l two of the same thing?

I subscribe to several rail ng's which contain pics of locomotives and
rolling stock, and such a feature would be useful.

I use OE for text, but have Agent Version 2

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Use Agent with Hamster. That's what I do. Sometimes I get posts for
one newsgroup from a half dozen different news servers. My page at ;

http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/hamster2.htm

might help.

Regards, John.

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[jo]

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Use Agent with Hamster. That's what I do. Sometimes I get posts for
one newsgroup from a half dozen different news servers.

Hamster is hardly a good idea in a binary group.

X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652

Some of the bugs in .646 have been softened and exciting new ones
added?

 

[John Fitzsimons]

John Fitzsimons wrote:

Hamster is hardly a good idea in a binary group.

Why ?

Some of the bugs in .646 have been softened and exciting new ones
added?

I could comment but if I did tell you anything I would have to kill
you afterwards.

Regards, John.

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[jo]

Why ?

Because you have to download all bodies.

I could comment but if I did tell you anything I would have to kill
you afterwards.

Ah well; it is on general release now... I will follow auorfa to see
if it is any better than the last couple of builds.
I won't be holding my breath... :-(

 

[John Fitzsimons]

John Fitzsimons wrote:

Because you have to download all bodies.

< snip >

You don't have to.

 

[jo]

< snip >

You don't have to.

This would be a deeply techie workround?

 

[John Fitzsimons]

John Fitzsimons wrote:

This would be a deeply techie workround?

No, just killfile every newspost of >0 lines in the newsgroup(s) you
only want headers in. Then every post will be in your Hamster "kill"
list. From there you can choose which ones you want to get bodies for.

IIRC the "script" is a single line for each relevant newsgroup.

Regards, John.

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[jo]

No, just killfile every newspost of >0 lines in the newsgroup(s) you
only want headers in. Then every post will be in your Hamster "kill"
list. From there you can choose which ones you want to get bodies for.

IIRC the "script" is a single line for each relevant newsgroup.

Thank you.