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JosephKK  
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 More options Jul 6 2008, 11:30 pm
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
From: JosephKK <quiettechb...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:30:53 -0700
Local: Sun, Jul 6 2008 11:30 pm
Subject: Re: Source Code for NewsProxy

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:48:01 +0000 (UTC), "Bill" wrote:
>JeffM <jef...@email.com> wrote:

>>>Greg Neill wrote:
>>>>The original author no longer supports NewsProxy/nfilter,
>>>>but some others are carrying on.
>>>>Here are links to nfilter 1.2.4:
>>>>(readme) ftp://ftp.zedz.net/incoming/NewsProxy_1.2.4.txt
>>>>(program) ftp://ftp.zedz.net/incoming/NewsProxy_1.2.4.zip

>>>>The zip file contains an executable
>>>>as well as another zip file with source code.

>>Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>Thanks, Greg!!!
>>>All the previous sites I had found had a corrupted zipfile :-(

>>Here's a short history of this saga:
>>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/msg/72b0904ff5f7e914...
>>news:13d9d6j9e4mrk8d@news.supernews.com

>FYI, my name is Bill and I live in Kirkland, WA.
>The accusations about NewsProxy being malicious
>are baseless, and the source code is provided.

>I've been working with the source code since 2001
>and have been using NewsProxy continuously since
>late 2000.

>I will answer any questions about v1.2.4 in
>alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified

>I found and fixed the problem with the long
>excel equation.  It's a simple matter of
>changing one define in the source code, but
>that's a sloppy approach.  If I fix it, it will
>be in v1.2.5, provided there are good reasons
>to release a new build.  I'm not going to put
>out v1.2.5 just to correct the line length bug,
>since no newsreader should be putting out 2076
>character long lines in the first place.

>I'm open to suggestions for further additions,
>improvements, whatever - but again, please use
>alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified

Being rather blunt at times, are you considering picking up
maintenance on it?

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