Reviews of NewsMan Pro

1. 
   Reverb

   Reviewing 3.0.2.3 (Jul 6, 2009)

   inight I'm glad I read your review. I downloaded the trial and ran it without MySQL and it took hours to update a popular newsgroup. I attributed this to that fact that I was using it's built-in database which they recommend against but if having a dedicated SQL setup yields the same results that makes this program utterly useless.
   
   I now use Newsleecher which retreives headers and updates newsgroups in a fraction of the time with no SQL required.
   
   NewsMan Pro does have the nicest GUI I've ever seen in a newsreader though.
2. 
   inight

   Reviewing 2.7.0.3 (Aug 7, 2007)

   Nice looking software and the authors do indeed have a quick response time to problems that come up. However, and this is a critical flaw in my opinion, it needs to be said upfront that it *will* choke on high bandwidth news groups unless you severely reduce the retention to only a few days. As long as you are willing to do that, the software is golden. But if you try and go with a full feed retaining all available posts on some of the bigger services like Giganews even with substantial hardware (Core 2 Quad QX6700 with RAID-5 Cheetah 15K.5 [5 drives] in my test case) and dedicated MySQL server settings you will run into problems. In my case the program took almost 3 full days(!) on the initial header pull and post-processing and then 2-3 hours afterwards on the scheduled daily download. Note: the actual download time itself was tiny compared to the time it took the program to process and store the headers. A competing product on the same system using the same groups took approximately 2.5 hours on the initial pull and roughly 10-15 minutes on the daily updates.
3. 
   bigspud

   Reviewing 2.6.0.4 (Feb 27, 2007)

   useless crap, not worth downloading.
   i dont often come across such poor software.
   i have tried many newsreaders and binary downloaders, but this is the worst by far.
4. 
   Chanito

   Reviewing 2.6.0.3 (Feb 7, 2007)

   I've been using Usenet for more than a decade and probably used every major newsreader out there and I have to say NewsMan Pro is the very best these days.
   
   Whether you work with text groups or binaries, NMP has the best features to organize and search the groups you're subscribed to.
   
   OK, if all you do with usenet is download using NZB files then you're probably better off with Newsleecher or other program, but anything beyond that you'll be grateful to work with NewsMan Pro.
   
   Using a real database is a bliss too. I can't count the times I had to download all my headers again because the database of this or that program broked. This hasn't happend once with NMP (I used MySQL first and MS-SQL these days).
5. 
   Spooon69

   Reviewing 2.6.0.1 (Oct 15, 2006)

   I needed a new program after leaving BNR3, which just got on my nerves with its unstable database. I read about NMP somwhere, the reason I tried it? MySQL, a REAL database. Not ONCE have I had to restart my database (well, I did once, only because I updated MySQL versions, even though I didn't need to).
   
   This program is amazingly stable and has so many features you'll probably just ignore them until you get bored one day and then get hooked on them (e.g. the scheduler). Now I wake up in the morning to find my headers downloaded and filtered without me having to do anything at all.
   
   The support is quick...scary quick, like, 5 minute response time.

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