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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 ...
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- Sep 19, 2008
- For version:
- 14
This program is junk 
- Interface: 1
- Features: 1
- Ease of use: 1
- Value: 1
- Overall:
I bought this program several years ago. It took me that long to learn to use it. I paid for the software and then Newsrover disabled the search functions and want me to pay an annual subscription fee of $19 to use the search function. To me, this is deceitful and wrong. The software has locked up on me many many times. Newsrover has a hard time with large groups and large files especially when trying to do two things at once. Like combining files. With Vista, things have gotten even worse. This program is not worth the money.
Review by: babubaht
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- 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.
Review by: TheGoodDoctor (9)
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