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In message <280320172024464456%phoney@bogus.com> Ed H. <phoney@bogus.com> wrote:
> In article <0001HW.D4F6F3E5031DD5B2B02919BF@news.astraweb.com>, Nelson
> <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:

>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:36:59 -0400, Tim Lance wrote
>> (in article <58d172cb$0$49851$b1db1813$145976f0@news.astraweb.com>):
>> 
>> > On Mar 21, 2017, Nelson wrote
>> > (in article<0001HW.D4F6D6990316F7FAB02919BF@news.astraweb.com>):
>> > 
>> >> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:37:41 -0400, Tim Lance wrote
>> >> (in article<58d13ab6$0$57868$c3e8da3$aae71a0a@news.astraweb.com>):
>> >> 
>> >>> He’s actively supporting it now. There was an extended period of
>> >>> time where
>> >> 
>> >>> he was disinterested. It happens with developers who have real day jobs.
>> >> 
>> >> I know Kurt. His programming business is his real day job. There is
>> >> just not enough money in a Mac Usenet client to make a living. Even
>> >> Panic couldn't justify it. He was experimenting with other apps.
>> >> 
>> >> How much time would you spend on an issue that affects one of the
>> >> thousand people who still use usenet for discussion?
>> > 
>> > Before the current new life, in one round of me emailing him about getting 
>> > back to it, he said he was considering rather two new apps: one for text,
>> > one 
>> 
>> > for binaries. I wonder how far he went with that idea.
>> > 
>> 
>> He wrote a binary downloader called NZB Drop but I don't know how 
>> successful he was with it. SABnzbd is pretty hard to beat.

> NZB Drop is a nice application; I've been using it since around 2006
> (now at v 3.2, $18). I prefer it to NZB Vortex or NZBin. I haven't used
> SABnzbd in a while, so I can't compare to that.

SAB is entirely "set it and forget it"

I download an nzb, files appear where I want them with no action on my
part.

It's free and well supported and frequently updated.

-- 
Lead me not into temptation, I can find the way.

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Re: kill certain authors Tim Lance <not@here.com> - 2017-03-21 09:37 -0500
  Re: kill certain authors Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-03-21 13:09 -0400
    Re: kill certain authors Tim Lance <not@here.com> - 2017-03-21 13:33 -0500
    Re: kill certain authors Tim Lance <not@here.com> - 2017-03-21 13:36 -0500
      Re: kill certain authors Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-03-21 15:14 -0400
        Re: kill certain authors Tim Lance <not@here.com> - 2017-03-21 14:34 -0500
          Re: kill certain authors Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-03-21 15:49 -0400
        Re: kill certain authors "Ed H." <phoney@bogus.com> - 2017-03-28 20:24 -0500
          Re: kill certain authors Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-29 07:37 +0000
            Re: kill certain authors Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-03-29 04:38 -0400
    Re: kill certain authors Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> - 2017-03-22 03:15 +0000
  Re: kill certain authors "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2017-03-21 23:00 +0000
    Re: kill certain authors Tim Lance <not@here.com> - 2017-03-21 20:21 -0500
      Re: kill certain authors "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2017-03-23 19:41 +0000
        Re: kill certain authors Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-03-23 16:05 -0400

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