To-Do List

Spiril · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:34 am Post subject: To-Do List

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NewsLeecher To-Do List

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Note: The features mentioned below are shown in no specific 

      order. They are on the to-list because they will be 

      implemented into future versions of NewsLeecher. Which

      versions are still uncertain.

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 * Option to keep downloaded / failed articles in the "download 

   queue".

 * Plug-In / Scripting support.

 * Automatic RAR / PAR2 handling and extraction

 * Detailed user configurable logging system.

 * Check for new newsgroups without redownloading entire 

   grouplist.

 * A new "only show highlighted articles" filter

 * Combine articles with, almost, same subject for easier 

   overview

 * Receive custom range of group headers

 * Support for non transparent proxys / firewalls.

 * "Detect breaks" feature. Ability to check if there are 

   missing parts in specific cached articles.

 * Crosspost detective. Find out which groups specific 

   articles have been crossposted to.

 * Posting system with yEnc/uuEncode compliant binary support.

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Added but needs improvement

 * Virtual groups. Combine many groups into one big virtual group.

    Remove duplicates

 * Split header fetching between multiple bots.

    Multiple bots downloading for a single group

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shutchinson · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 8

Regarding bandwidth throttling, This feature might be a bit of a pain to implement, but equally useful to me would be a timer based pause. I often pause long downloads to get work done on my connection only to discover the next day that I forgot to unpause the download. It would be nice to be able to either pause for 2 hours, or pause until some set time, and this seems like it would be easier to implement.

On bandwidth throttling, it would be nice to be able to set this based on time, so that I throttle back during the day, and unleash the download at night.

Thanks!
Scott

Shauntain · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 29

until its implemented you could just use Netlimiter ... i'd download v1.3 though.. it can do just what you want which scheduling times and all that... and it will give Spiril more time to implement other features Very Happy

Nell · Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 9

Hi,
are there any plans yet to allow you to browse a group as nl is d-loading headers from another? this seems like a no-brainer to me. it was a great feature in power grab, you could be browsing cd.image, while scanning dvdr.... TIA, Nell

Spiril · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject:

Nell · Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 9

thanks, that will be GREAT! I've been waiting for that. the program works very well, aside from the occasional "application bug" I even bought it I liked it so much! Smile

omegadcuk · Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 6

How about a feature to auto-update headers of newsgroups that are subscribed to?

dwazegek · Forum Moderator Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 3006

Dr Vids · Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 26 Location: West Coast, USA

I think the most important feature we need right now is header filtering. The amount of SPAM being posted to Usenet is getting unbearable and Subject and Poster filters are not effective. I tried to use nfilter but it's old and doesn't want to install under XP (I think the downloads are F'd). The FAQ has a lot of useful information that Spiril could use to help implement this.

If anyone has another option please let us know so we can have something until this is implemented.

Thanx for an otherwise great program,
David

havacashew · Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 7

I like my article lists sorted by Subject. Whenever I do an update or switch groups, I have to re-click the Subject header column. It's not THAT much work, but it's one more repetitive thing to do. Can you make the article sort preference "sticky", perhaps even sort-on-the-fly?

(BTW - I've been a registered user since last November. Excellent program!)

dwazegek · Forum Moderator Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 3006

AssassiN · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject:

techfuzz · Forum Moderator Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 5344

Motley · Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

Any chance any of the following will make it in to a version prior to 2.5?

* Option to keep downloaded / failed articles in the "download
queue".
* Automatic RAR / PAR2 handling and extraction
* Make downloaded file combination code multithreaded to
prevent freezes.

Or
* Added option to autodelete downloads that match a previous files size and hash (Using MD5 or SHA)?
* Autoleech every file that matches a list of configured masks.

Those are the only features I really care about, don't really care about the 2.5+ features at all really.

thenetripper · Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 5

Automatic RAR / PAR2 handling and extraction Would be really nice