Best newsreader for d/l binary files?

[FrugalGuy]

What's the best newsreader for downloading binary files?

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I will get shredded for this, but I still prefer plain old Outlook Express. I have tried Forte Agent and others and just found them cumbersome. If you need to download yEnc-encoded files, you can use a little proxy translator like yProxy.

 

[dighn]

xnews is free and works very well

 

[tigerbait]

NewsBin Pro

 

[emmpee]

i'll second the newsbin recommendation

 

[bigrash]

Grabit

 

[NightCrawler]

newsbin pro

 

[FrugalGuy]

is newsbin pro fully functional if i don't pay for it?

 

[phonemonkey]

Originally posted by: dighn
xnews is free and works very well

 

[Sid59]

xnews

don't use OE .. sucks.

 

[jfall]

I like GrabIT

 

[beatmix01]

im a fan of newsleecher

www.newsleecher.com

 

[Chu]

Another vote for GrabIt. It's free too!

-Chu

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: dighn
xnews is free and works very well

Ditto. Been using it for almost two years now and it's great.

 

[helpme]

Originally posted by: bigrash
Grabit

 

[darkeneddays]

Originally posted by: helpme

Originally posted by: bigrash
Grabit

 

[UncleWai]

Newsbin pro rulez!


*cough*ygpm *cough*

 

[microphobia]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Newsbin pro rulez!


*cough*ygpm *cough*

 

[Joker81]

newsbin rocks. Best support evar

 

[slag]

forte agent.

Best interface

Excellent layout

Easy as pie to use.

 

[Cerb]

Agent easy to use? Bah! And feh! And the 2GB limit! Evil! Pure evil! And it is a royal pain to set up.
PAN
Install GTK, install PAN, get on with downloads.

 

[Antoneo]

Another vote for Grabit from Shemes.

 

[Warthog912]

Originally posted by: slag
forte agent.

Best interface

Excellent layout

Easy as pie to use.

 

[Chu]

Originally posted by: slag
forte agent.

Best interface

Excellent layout

Easy as pie to use.

Forte is great for discussion groups, but it absolutely blows compared to a dedicated binary newsreader for the binaries groups. You really should give some of the other programs in this thread a try.

-Chu

 

[MustISO]

I'm using an older version of Giganews Binary Newsreader. I have all the other programs I just like this one. Biggest problem I've found with all the programs I've tried is that they all have issues downloading really large groups. Even using a database they all take huge amounts of ram trying to get the headers for groups that have 1,000,000+ articles. If there's a program that does this well, I'd like to try it.