Xnews newsreader still under development
- Thread starter Eddieo
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I still use Xnews as well. One problem I have that I have not seen mentioned is that if I go to a group...Binary...and there are a lot of headers, like 1,000,000 plus, it downloads them and hangs. Any idea why there seems to be a limit? I have 1GB of ram!
No...you try it and tell me what you think! 
Actually, I have been thinking of trying Newsleecher and/or Newsbin pro. I want to be able to get many headers from groups I do not go to very often and XNews hangs when catching up on these groups.
Actually, I have been thinking of trying Newsleecher and/or Newsbin pro. I want to be able to get many headers from groups I do not go to very often and XNews hangs when catching up on these groups.
Xnews does not use a swap file. If you have less than a gig of ram, you need to make your max headers at less than 1 mil. 800k works good.
Me too, I need to try one of those.Originally posted by: DaveR
No...you try it and tell me what you think!
Actually, I have been thinking of trying Newsleecher and/or Newsbin pro. I want to be able to get many headers from groups I do not go to very often and XNews hangs when catching up on these groups.
Have not tried but I think I read on their board a couple weeks ago that the NZB only works for posting not retrieving or something like that. Hopefully down the road.
Me too. I am trying Newsleecher now. I put it on a system with 256MB RAM and I picked a Binary group with 2.8 Million headers. I will see how well it works!
Originally posted by: Eddieo
Me too, I need to try one of those.Originally posted by: DaveR
No...you try it and tell me what you think!
Actually, I have been thinking of trying Newsleecher and/or Newsbin pro. I want to be able to get many headers from groups I do not go to very often and XNews hangs when catching up on these groups.
do you know how to use Xnews newsreader ?
Im using version 5.04.25 , considering its quite old, It is the only one I could find that is a free full version newsreader that even has Yenc jpg decryption in it.
However I can not seem to find "find newsgroup manually" , Im already connected to a server, but now I want to check if I can get into a specific newsgroup that they may have. I found this feature once but now I can not find it again , any help would be appreciated .
Im using version 5.04.25 , considering its quite old, It is the only one I could find that is a free full version newsreader that even has Yenc jpg decryption in it.
However I can not seem to find "find newsgroup manually" , Im already connected to a server, but now I want to check if I can get into a specific newsgroup that they may have. I found this feature once but now I can not find it again , any help would be appreciated .
This is a very old thread. Maybe you'd be better off learning to use a newer newsreader, because Xnews was out of date when this topic was created.
I'd recommend starting a new topic asking what people are using. Grabit is also free.
I'd recommend starting a new topic asking what people are using. Grabit is also free.
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