- Nov 10, 2000
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Hey All,
I've been using Agent for years now (Mostly the same damn version) and it's good but lacks it a few areas that are causing me major problems and making it almost not worth using. It's not Agent's fault but my ISP but Agent's lack of a retry or resume is making it worse.
So my question to you guys is, do you know of a news Reader, similar to Agent perhaps but which will do an auto retry and auto resume? The problem is this. When someone posts a multi-part message, Agent nicely combines them into one message. This is cool. However, as you're downloading it, if you have a problem or server time-out it cancels it. It doesn't resume where you left off even if you'd gotten most of it and it won't retry. It'll just sit there like a lump. Nothing like batching up a bunch of jobs only to find out you got a time-out on the first one and so it was cancelled.
I've tried several newsreaders: X-news, Nomad News, News Bin to name a few and while they had lots of features I wish Agent did they usually lacked in a few essential ones. Like for example, Nomad News is awesome but it doesn't support Regex. This hurts. Their scoring and filtering are ok and I can get the same effect of my regex string for most except for the more advanced like a message has to have a particular letter followed by any number.
So please help if you know of a good news reader. I don't care if it's free or not. What would be perfect is a news reader that was a clone of Agent but improved with added features like auto-retry and auto-resume.
I've been using Agent for years now (Mostly the same damn version) and it's good but lacks it a few areas that are causing me major problems and making it almost not worth using. It's not Agent's fault but my ISP but Agent's lack of a retry or resume is making it worse.
So my question to you guys is, do you know of a news Reader, similar to Agent perhaps but which will do an auto retry and auto resume? The problem is this. When someone posts a multi-part message, Agent nicely combines them into one message. This is cool. However, as you're downloading it, if you have a problem or server time-out it cancels it. It doesn't resume where you left off even if you'd gotten most of it and it won't retry. It'll just sit there like a lump. Nothing like batching up a bunch of jobs only to find out you got a time-out on the first one and so it was cancelled.
I've tried several newsreaders: X-news, Nomad News, News Bin to name a few and while they had lots of features I wish Agent did they usually lacked in a few essential ones. Like for example, Nomad News is awesome but it doesn't support Regex. This hurts. Their scoring and filtering are ok and I can get the same effect of my regex string for most except for the more advanced like a message has to have a particular letter followed by any number.
So please help if you know of a good news reader. I don't care if it's free or not. What would be perfect is a news reader that was a clone of Agent but improved with added features like auto-retry and auto-resume.