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It's *badly* overpriced but it too has a rock solid database implementation (did I mention BNR2 couldn't have a solid database implementation to save its life?) and handles ginormous groups easily.įour stars for a great freeware app that does almost all of what I want a binary news inhaler to do. Stability is and this baby has it.įor a step up from this that includes multi-server support, try NewsLeecher.

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It doesn't do simultaneous downloading from multiple servers but that isn't a showstopper for me. : Free Download, Borrow, and GrabIt Item Preview grabitnews.jpg. This program does not handle ginormous (my word) groups well (we're talking in excess of six million headers) but in all other respects it acquits itself very well. There are two thing that BNR2 doesn't (and likely will never) have that this program does:įor stability alone, I consigned BNR2 to the garbage bin (I'm yet to see a release that didn't necessitate a complete re-inhale of all headers after a week of use due to corruption) and have used this steadfastly until my ISP switched to GigaNews. ONE star for a once useful program that hints and teases but refuses to dance with the single largest issue of binary Usenet users.

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I tested it with a group having 5.5 million headers and while it was very slow to process those headers once they were finished downloading, the program actually presented me with a usable download list and did not simply give me a blank screen the way GrabIt! does. If you're serious about Usenet binary downloading then don't bother.Īs an aside, Power-Grab 2002 (which is also free - REALLY free) DOES handle large groups. If you're a casual binary group user with a piddly server that will have at most only a couple hundred thousand headers in a single group then this is for you. NewsLeecher, for all its foibles (and asinine policy towards fixes and testing) blows the doors off this program for speed and effortless handling of groups.

This program is also glacially slow handling those large groups it actually can deal with. Kludges like the 'new technology' that allows sampling of large groups and the limiting of the number of headers retrieved do not a solution make. The first time you open GrabIt the configuration wizard appears.

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Choose a folder for the program to install and whether or not you want desktop or quick launch icons. If the group you plan to use has more than a million or so headers, don't bother with GrabIt! - the program will glitch Big Time. Visit the GrabIt newsreader homepage () to download the latest version of the client. If you have any problems signing up please let me know.After two years of 'discussion', there is STILL no fix for the 'large group bug'. Shemes Grabit version 1.5.1: Security vulnerabilities, exploits, vulnerability statistics, CVSS scores and references (e.g. Happy grabbing everybody!Ĭredit card payments are back online! I'm going to start closing accounts that are expired in the next few hours. Also the GrabIt Search will index faster, so new articles appear faster in the GrabIt Search. Result is faster response times to the GrabIt Search. I had a good deal on some new servers, so I replaced 4 of the older servers with new servers. Sorry for not picking up on this earlier, I just didn't realize how much Giganews service had declined.Īs always, if you are missing any groups in the GrabIt Search or GrabIt Usenet Browser, just contact me from the chat / message bubble below and I'll see if I can add it for you. We noticed much better completion on all binaries posted since February 13th, so the problem was worse than we thought. We where a bit behind while sorting through 789 million articles, but we are currently processing articles posted 5 minutes ago so the search engine is fully up to date. So over the past three days we migrated over to our own news servers (). The first time you open GrabIt the configuration wizard.

But we noticed a lot of missing articles lately. Visit the GrabIt newsreader homepage () to download the latest version of the client. For the last 12 years we have been using Giganews servers to feed the GrabIt Search engine.