News Xpress

~terry Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (12:27) seed

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.