Freeware Version
Newsman Pro Website 3.0.7.6 9/8/2012 5.35MB
Tucows Mirror 3.0.7.6 9/24/2012 5.35MB
MySQL Database Engine
MySQL Website

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Newsman Pro Website 5.0.67 Install 8/4/2008 23.3MB
Newsman Pro Website 5.0.67 Source 8/4/2008 30.9MB
Microsoft SQL Server
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Freeware and Registered Versions

The Freeware Version of Newsman Pro is completely free with no expiration. There is no adware or spyware installed with any version of the program.

Feature Comparison
  Freeware Registered
Connections per server 2 99
Compressed Header Support No Yes
Encrypted SSL connections Yes Yes
Text messages - reading and posting Yes Yes
Binary messages - download/upload Yes Yes
Virtual Newsgroups as Workgroups Yes Yes
Multiple Server Support Yes Yes
Server Priorities and Server Pooling Yes Yes
ISpell spell-check support Yes Yes
Message Scoring No Yes
Automation Rules (rule-based download, mark, delete, score) No Yes
Task Scheduler (header retrieval, purging, bandwidth limit, stop/start) No Yes
NZB Import No Yes
NZB Export Yes Yes
Bandwidth Limiter No Yes
Global Header Searching No Yes
Global Body Searching No Yes
Powerful user-defined filtering Yes Yes
Quick Filters Yes Yes
Support for server download limits No Yes
Queue Post Processing, including Par2 and UnRar support No Yes
Newsgroup Explorer Feature No Yes
Free 1 month/25GB account with Astraweb No Yes
Database Engines

Newsman Pro comes with the Advantage Database Server (ADS) as the built-in database engine. This engine functions quite well for text newsgroups and smaller binary groups. It is NOT designed to handle the large volumes of data that would be processed in a binary newsgroup such as alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 or groups that are even larger. If you want to use Newsman Pro as a binary downloader, we highly recommend that you download MySQL or use Microsoft© SQL Server. MySQL is available using the links at the top of this page, while Microsoft© SQL Server is available directly from Microsoft. When processing headers, MySQL and SQL Server are approximately 1000 times faster than ADS. They are also about 3 times faster for other general purposes such as browsing messages and downloading articles.

Usenet News Servers
Giganews Newsgroups

While Newsman Pro should work reliably with any news server, it has been extensively tested with the following subscription news providers:

In addition, we have also tested with many private news servers that are available for product support and educational purposes (Microsoft, for example). We are committed to supporting all NNTP-compliant news servers and will work with you and your news provider to resolve any issues that may arise in getting Newsman Pro to connect to a news server.

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