e-mail: newsmail@bigfoot.com
web site: homepage: http://www.bigfoot.com/~newsmail
register online: http://www.bigfoot.com/~newsmail
price: 20$ in US funds

ABOUT
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NewsMail Collector is an Automated Application that selectively retrieves email
addresses from newsgroups. It includes a flexible filtering system to weedout 
unwanted addresses. Features include caching of newsgroups, verifying hostnames, 
scans for duplicate addresses, global or newsgroup specific duplicate monitoring, 
email addresses formatting, honors NO SPAM and more. Addresses are saved in a plaintext file 
with each email address on a single line. Shareware version will only save 50 addresses.

Features
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- Honors NO SPAM
- Create unlimited filters on the article header
- verify hostnames before saving
- Scans for duplicate email addresses
- Save to global or newsgroup specific file
- Uncluttered easy to use interface

Notes
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- NewsMail Collector will always append to an existing filename. 
- If no global email file is provided, the application will create a file named <newsgroupname>.txt
  containing the list of addresses it saves, in the directory where it was executed from
- The unregistered shareware copy will only save 50 email addresses

Shareware
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NewsMail Collector is Shareware which means that you can use it legally for 30 days 
free of charge to evaluate it. If during, or at the end of, that period you decide that 
you would like to continue using it, please register your copy. Your single-user 
registration will license you to use your copy of ReconMail, will support work on future 
versions, new features, and bug fixes, and will provide you with technical support via email.

Getting Started With NewsMail
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To Collect Email Addresses you need access to an NNTP news server. Web sites that provide
news access though the WWW will NOT work with this application. Access to news servers
are usually offered by your ISP, but if you ISP does not provide one, check the newsmail
website for websites that have a list of publicly accessible news servers. Here are some
good sites you can check out for public servers

If you know the internet address of the News Server you want to use, click on the "ADD/EDIT"
button. Enter the server name and port(default is 119). Save your entry and presss the OK
button to return to the main screen.

Now select the name of the server in the combobox, and click on the "Load Groups" button.
NewsMail will get a list of newsgroups currently offered by your server. The time it takes
to retrieve these groups depends on how many groups and how fast your connection to the
internet is. Once the groups have been retrieved a copy is saved on your computer so you
won't have to do it over again each time.

After retrieving the groups, select the ones you would like to scan and click on 
"Grab Email Addresses".

You can choose to save the collected email addresses in one big file or they will be
saved in text files beginning with the name of the newsgroup. for example (alt_games.txt)

What's New v1.4
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- Appends to output file if it already contains email address entries
- Scans a previously existing address file so you can check for dupes even from old collections
- New help file and tooltips
- New scanning algorithm reduces number of non-existent messages, ie "430 no such article found"
- You can now select and deselect large chunks of newsgrouops by right-clicking on a group

What's New v1.3
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- Authenticated logins
- Now Remebers previous selected groups


What's New v1.2
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Various bug fixes and enhancements