Newsrover setup

Designed for unattended operation. Subscribed Newsgroups : Allows user to download all newsgroups, subscribe to newsgroups and then download the messages. Will download multi-part messages with file attachments. News Rover newsreader details: Picture Gallery : thumbnails images of your downloaded picture files. To view full-size of picture, click on thumbnail. Also has a built in slide show feature that makes it easy to scroll through picture set.

Enhanced Security : Password protection and Encryption Option allows user to designate certain newsgroups as protected. The messages and files in these groups will be hidden from view unless the user enters in their password. Display Filters : User is able to filter out what messages to display. For example, can display only messages with JPG files which will filter out text only messages and incomplete multi-part messages. Select the option Create New Interest Group from the popup menu, you will be presented with the following dialog:.

You can name your interest group whatever you like, but I'd suggest something obvious you can see some examples in the earlier picture. For this example, I'm creating a group called "Grace's Postings". As these instructions are intended to help you configure NewsRover to retrieve binaries, you should select the radio button Only messages that have attached files under I'm interested in. When you select this, the check box Only scan message if a file name is in the subject becomes available and checked.

I recommend leaving it checked. Most posters use software that automatically puts the filename in the subject such as the excellent PowerPost so this option helps keep out the garbage. Now click the Next button to move on to the next stage of the configuration of this interest group. You will be presented with a dialog where you can select which newsgroups are to be scanned. Initially, it looks something like this If you type "alt.

Type another period and an extra x, to get "alt. Click on the group s that you want to scan you can select multiple groups, by pressing CTRL while you click , then click on the Select newsgroup button.

For this example, I selected alt. The next screen allows you to tell NewsRover how far back in time it should go to start scanning articles. Very few news servers keep binaries longer than 14 days, so I recommend leaving it set at the default Clicking the Next button brings us to the screen that we really want.

This is where we can set up the selection criteria to determine which messages are retrieved. The trick to making Autoscan Interest Groups work properly is getting these expressions right. Clicking on Help will take you to the detailed instructions for creating these filters, but as an example suppose I wanted to get all of the messages whose subject contained either "Episode" or "Season", but I didn't want episodes 8X10 and 8X11 remember, we're talking X Files here :.

From personal experience, I would advise against selecting the option to Search message header and message body - unless you want NewsRover to spend a lot of time downloading data that it never saves! The syntax of these search expressions is well explained in the NewsRover help file.

You can access the topic by clicking on the Help button from the Message Filters screen. Words match at the beginning of a phrase, so car matches car , caravan , carcass. Words in lower case match any combination of case, while words containing any upper-case characters must match the case exactly. Two or more words together match a phrase, so blue car matches any message with the word blue followed by any word beginning with car.

Words or phrases enclosed in quotes match whole words, rather than just the beginning of a word. So "blue car" matches blue car , but not blue carcass. All punctuation symbols, both in the search string, and in the message being searched are treated as white space.

Clicking the Next button takes you to the final screen. This is where you tell NewsRover where to put its files. Click on Browse to get a standard directory chooser and select a location for your files. In this example, we are looking for the automotive group BMW.

When entering BMW only the newsgroups with that word will appear. News Rover will now connect and download the latest headers.

The newsgroup that you subscribed to should appear in the upper left menu of News Rover. When selecting the newsgroup, the articles should appear in the right upper window. You can read and respond to messages there. Contact support to have posting enabled. News Rover Windows Tutorial.