News Xpress
Topic 132 · 12 responses · archived october 2000
~terry
Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (12:27)
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News Xpress -- News Xpress contains many of the same features
found in Free Agent and also includes several additional features.
Kill-file and autoselect abilities are offered by News Xpress, as are
filtering, sorting, and mailing capabilities. News Xpress is offered in
both Windows 3.x and Windows 95 versions. The '95 version is
currently in beta release and does have its fair share of bugs, but
also has additional new features like an inline image viewer and
built-in support for UUencode, UUdecode, and Base64. News
Xpress is aptly named -- it is definitely one of the quickest
Newsreaders available. Like the '95 release, News Xpress for
Windows 3.x is still in beta release and is also subject to a few bugs
here and there. Also, help for News Xpress is very minimal, a big
negative for novice users. News Xpress does lack some features
central to Free Agent, including watching/ignoring threads, efficient
online/offline switching, and automatic catching up. The
Newest version of News Xpress for 3.x has implemented Word
Wrap, a much needed improvement.
Pros: Many, many features; easy customization; kill-file, filtering,
sorting capabilities; speed
Cons: Lacks extensive on-line help, somewhat buggy, needs thread
monitoring
New: Windows 95 release, inline image viewer, built-in
encoding/decoding support
Version Reviewed: 3.x - 1.0b4. 95 - 2.0 Beta 2
Date of Review: 7/4/96 Reviewer: Forrest Stroud
~rljl
Tue, Oct 8, 1996 (17:43)
#1
The best newsreader yet and i have tried them all.
~bcostin
Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (19:23)
#2
NewsX is a great newsreader. Every couple months I break down and try out the latest beta of Free Agent, but I always come back to NewsX. It does everything I need a newsreader to do, and does it quickly and with a minumum of hassle. I infinitely prefer its more flexible interface to Agent's tiled-window approach.
~terry
Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (20:48)
#3
How does it compare to the Newsreaders that come with Netscape and
Internet Explorer?
~tedchong
Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (23:15)
#4
where can we get (url or ftp) the latest copy of NewsX 32-bit for windows95?
~terry
Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (02:48)
#5
Off of Forest's site. Have you visited http://www.spring.com.
I love to give Ted a hard time!
~tedchong
Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (08:46)
#6
I don't visit www.spring.com often because the link from my place
is very slow. I visit www.windows95.com more often as the link
is faster.
Also I like to get NewsX directly from the source, I think is
somewhere in Hongkong.
Ya, Terry, you are giving me hard times, but I am still alive
and well... :-)
~terry
Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (07:39)
#7
We have two T-1 connections, you'll have to try the other one sometime
and see if it is faster. Try http://www.austen.com sometime and tell me
how the speed compares.
~tedchong
Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (01:54)
#8
http://www.austin.com ?
I tried both of them, below are the PING results, look the same to me:
ping www.austin.com
PING vern.bga.com (205.238.128.38): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=757.2 ms
64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=2 ttl=240 time=869.2 ms
64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=993.5 ms
64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=4 ttl=240 time=845.0 ms
64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=5 ttl=240 time=851.1 ms
ping www.spring.com
PING www.spring.com (208.199.212.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=919.8 ms
64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=802.8 ms
64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=750.5 ms
64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=805.2 ms
64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=848.7 ms
~renehoss
Thu, Feb 20, 1997 (14:00)
#9
So when will there be a 16bit version available??? Ever...???
~Imagine
Tue, Jul 15, 1997 (20:37)
#10
For my money....and that was zero, there is no comparison between NewsX and
the other guys....espically "Free Agent". For code size alone, NewsX unzips
to about 800K....F-A is about 1.1 Meg before extraction. Not to mention that
NewsX has in line viewer/decoder, reports lines of code and has numerous
filtering (kill-file) options. I'm talking version 2.01....no bugs found yet.
Version 2.00 was very buggy, but to bilders credit: Raid Applied
~wta
Thu, Aug 14, 1997 (14:56)
#11
NewsX is without a doubt thee best newsreader one can use regardless of price!
i will never use anything else. the kill-phile is great. so great i rarely see any SPAM. if i do, it's very little & quickly extinguished! the interface is very intuitive! NewsX really doesn't need a manual. there are a few winsock bugz but i rarely ever crash it except under heavy multi-net-tasking. i'm gonna try 2.01 today. perhaps it's better.
Ken Ng has done the net community right in a big way! i wish him nothing but continued success in his endeavors.
~squire
Thu, Mar 9, 2000 (00:03)
#12
I've noticed that the 16-bit version of News Xpress is limited to 32767 newsgroups.
My local newsserver has close to 60000. Is there any way around the limit? I
can't post replies without downloading all newsgroups (it seems) and, after the
32767th, the count flips to -32767 and counts up to nearly zero.