NewsLeecher 6.0 Beta 1
#: To celebrate the first official beta of NewsLeecher V6.0, we
have lowered the price of our all-inclusive "Ready to Go"
Usenet package to $11.99/mo. The new price applies to both
current and new "Ready to Go" accounts.
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The "Ready to Go" package includes :
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With the "Ready to Go" package, *everything* is included! So
there is no need to pay for 3rd party Usenet access anymore.
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1. Unlimited Usenet Access w. almost 1800 days of retention.
2. Unlimited SuperSearch Search Service Access.
3. Extended access to our brand new SuperLeech Service.
Read more about the new SuperLeech Service below ...
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-- Major Feature Addition - SuperLeech Automation Service -- --
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This initial beta release of NewsLeecher V6.0, implements a new
NewsLeecher service called "SuperLeech".
The SuperLeech service is based on the SuperSearch search
service, and allows one to setup search queries that will
automatically find and leech wanted articles off the Usenet, as
soon as possible, after they have been made available online.
Currently, SuperLeech implements 3 different service modes :
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1. "Leech [ All ] " Mode
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This is the most basic mode. Using this mode, SuperLeech will
leech *everything* matching the specified search query. This
mode should only be used, if you search for very specific
subjects, or you will end up having the SuperLeech service
leeching way too many articles.
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2. "Leech [ Once ] " Mode
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Using this mode, SuperLeech will leech the first matching
article ( or article collection ), that gets posted to the
Usenet, after the SuperLeech entry has been activated.
When a match has occurred, the SuperLeech service will make
sure that no further articles are matched.
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3. "Leech [ Episodes ] " Mode
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This mode has been implemented for users, who are interested
in series episodes. It can be used to automatically download
new episodes for wanted series, almost as soon as they get
posted to the Usenet.
Say you are interested in a podcast series called "My Favorite
Podcast Show". To automatically download new episodes of the
series, when they become available, simply setup a SuperLeech
entry with the search query set to "My Favorite Podcast Show"
(wo. quotes) and the search method set to "Leech [ Episodes ]".
SuperLeech will then detect and leech the new episodes, almost
as soon as they get posted to the Usenet.
Furthermore, SuperLeech will make sure that already leeched
episodes are not leeched again, to avoid wasted bandwidth.
Note that the "Leech [ Episodes ]" mode, is using certain
standard season and episode specific substrings in the article
subjects (S##E##, ##x## and more) to detect episodes properly,
so those substrings must be present for the mode to function.
In most cases, though, that should not be a problem, as the
majority of posted episode related articles will have that info
included, as standard.
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-- Larger Feature Addition - NewsLeecher Password Manager -- --
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NewsLeecher now implements an archive extract password manager.
The manager can be accessed from the "Repair & Extract" toolbar
and enables one to specify passwords that the Repair & Extract
feature should try to use against password protected archives.
+: Implemented support for auto importing NZB passwords into the
new "Repair & Extract" password manager, mentioned above.
NewsLeecher will detect the passwords, by looking at the
imported NZB filename, and auto extract / import passwords
specified by the following format:
"nzb filename here {{[password]}}.nzb
+: -- Spam Detection Addition --
NewsLeecher can now be setup to detect "EXE in RAR" archives.
Those EXE ( executable *.exe ) files are almost always viruses.
Spam detection can be setup here:
Settings -> Leech Tweaks -> Spam Detection
+: -- Spam Detection Addition --
NewsLeecher can now be setup to detect passworded RAR archives.
Before marking such archives as spam, NewsLeecher will first
try to match the RAR password against the passwords listed in
the new "NewsLeecher Password Manager" ( see above )
Spam detection can be setup here:
Settings -> Leech Tweaks -> Spam Detection
+: -- Spam Detection Addition --
Added an option to show detailed information on Spam Detection
in the NewsLeecher log. The log option can be enabled from:
Settings -> Leech Tweaks -> Spam Detection
+: Added an option to pause the download queue, while "Repair &
Extract" is busy with repairing or extracting files.
The option can be accessed from :
Settings -> Leech Tweaks -> General Leech Tweaks
Settings -> Adv. Nerdy Tweaks -> Download Pause While Repair...
*: -- Spam Detection --
The spam detection routines in NewsLeecher have been improved
a lot, to detect more spam.
*: -- Spam Detection / SuperLeech Improvement --
The NewsLeecher article spam detection feature is now
integrated with the new SuperLeech service. This means that if
a SuperLeech initiated article download is detected as spam,
SuperLeech will know that, and ignore the downloaded article and
instead start looking for alternative articles to leech.
Spam detection can be setup here:
Settings -> Leech Tweaks -> Spam Detection
*: Many smaller improvements. (Moved the "SuperSearch" append query
string from the SuperSearch toolbar and into the SuperSearch
settings dialog, etc.)
!: Lots of smaller bug fixes.