Re: [Update] GrabIt 1.6.0 Build 928 Beta

de John Corliss 04/19/2006 02:55

Ron May wrote:
> Allan Higdon wrote:
>
>> New GrabIt Usenet Browser technology enables the user to
>> instantly see and download the latest binaries in a group
>> without downloading headers
>
> This is a KILLER feature, but what is not obvious until you start
> using the program is that it's enabled on a trial basis for a
> specified number of headers. After that, you have to subscribe to
> GrabIt servers for a monthly fee in order for it to work.
>
> Still, if you know what you're looking for and use a free site like
> http://www.yabse.com/ to create .NZB files that GrabIt WILL import,
> you can still get around downloading ALL headers from a monster group
> like alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd. Even a few days worth will
> usually run into the tens of thousands.

Thanks for covering this, Ron. I use this program on an almost daily
basis (ver. 1.5.3) and love it. Even if the feature is disabled after a
while, it's not a big thing. I usually tell Grabit to "Update groups"
and then do something else like read ACF while the process is
completing. Since Grabit is so much better written than the buggy and
sometimes totally non-functional BNR2 (which I suffered with for so
long) and gets headers so much more quickly, I can live with it.

And remember, the program does incremental updating of groups, which is
faster than full updates.

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