There are hundred of thousands of different newsgroups on the Net. Most newsgroup
subscribers are members of multiple groups. Find out which tools are available to
make managing these subscriptions easier.
Binary Boy
Binary Boy allows its users to download music, movies and pictures from news
servers. Folks can browse manually or schedule a search to collect files while they
sleep. An intelligent subject cache speeds up searches and preserves bandwidth.
The program comes witha a decoder that is is Hyper-Threading capable.
Using Binary Boy, one can search using single words, wildcards or use boolean
logic and custom search rules can be applied to each newsgroup. This is one of the
few applications that allows users to decode damaged or incomplete mpg movies for
previewing. yEnc, MIME, QP-Lite, Quote-Printable and BommaNews encodings are handled
automatically.
More Information: http://www.deprice.com/binaryboy.htm
News File Grabber
News File Grabber is a specialized newsreader which lets you easily download
and extract all kinds of attachments and binary files (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 simultaneous download threads
and secure server connections (SSL). You also can 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 automatically searches newsgroups
for binary attachments (pictures).It then downloads and saves them for your pleasure.
As if by magic, Pluckit seeks out only messages with binary attachments, grabs
and saves them. Pluckit can display pictures individually, in a slide show, or in
a gallery! All you have to do is tell Pluckit what kinds of pictures you are interested
in and 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 while running completely unattended in
the foreground or background.
