User Reviews
News Rover
News Rover is a fully automatic program for downloading Usenet messages, decoding file attachments and displaying messages and pictures. News Rover scans newsgroups that you specify, downloads messag ...
Average of 1 user ratings: 
- Sep 19, 2006
- For version:
- 12
Decent but expensive news reader 
- Interface: 3
- Features: 4
- Ease of use: 1
- Value: 1
- Overall:
I've been using News Rover in all versions since 6.0, and I'm currently on 11.3. Feature-wise, it's among the better news readers, although that's not saying a lot. NR is powerful, but it will take you some time to learn, and I don't recommend it for novices. The authors have irritatingly chosen to use highly non-traditional menus, so even expert users will take significant time to learn to use them. The biggest problem I have with News Rover is a big one: price. In the past few years, they've come out with upgrade versions every year and they only grandfather people who have bought the previous version within about 2 months! Bottom line, you have to shell out $9.95 for upgrades every year.
