Re: Re: Feature Request

"Darrell G" <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:38:47 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.bnr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The source is available at http://www.bnr2.org/. I think you just told the
author that someone pissed in his Wheaties. It was kind of amusing in a sad
way.




On 6/17/08, Mr. Delphi Developer <[email protected]> wrote:
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>   Man, who pissed in your Wheaties?
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> I was wondering if anyone knows if the source code to BNR is available or
> who the original author is and how to contact them.
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> --- On Mon, 6/16/08, Lenny_Nero <[email protected]<Lenny_Nero%40Hotmail.com>>
> wrote:
> From: Lenny_Nero <[email protected] <Lenny_Nero%40Hotmail.com>>
> Subject: [BNR] Re: Feature Request
> To: [email protected] <bnr1%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 6:44 PM
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> andyvetrep said
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> > --- In bnr1@yahoogroups. com, "stormblade31" <stormblade@ ...> wrote:
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> >>
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> >> --- In bnr1@yahoogroups. com, "Mike Schattl" <mike@> wrote:
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> >> > Hello,
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> >> > I notice that when using BNR2, you can't minimize the application
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> > to
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> >> > the taskbar tray. Perhaps this feature can be added in a possible
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> >> > future version of BNR.
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> >> >
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> >> > Mike Schattl
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> >> >
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> >> >
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> >> I'm about ready to classify BNR2 as abandonware. Fortunately it still
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> >> works even on Vista.
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> Good thing its not up to you, but I expect that you can say what you want
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> its not like it matters.
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> > BNR2 hasn't been updated in three years now, it is definitely not under
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> > active development. Somebody is nice enough to maintain the website and
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> > such, but I don't think there will be any new features added. Pity.
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> >
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> > BTW, it minimizes just fine for me, if I understand what the OP was
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> > asking.
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> >
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> > Andy
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> When someone comes up with something *real* that BNRx cant do I expect
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> that there will be some more devel, for me I 'still' cant find another
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> news down loader that can come close.
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> Lets face it if your not happy with BNR fuck off elsewhere, it still
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> amazes me that people ask for stuff and its been there for ages (first
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> fucking option), they just need to be spoon fed.
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> I have not long said this in another usenet group, come up with something
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> REAL that BNRx cant do, and lots of other news down loaders already have.
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> I get TB's of data with all of my BNRx setups they can work while I am
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> away getting stuff from my want lists happily working for weeks, they all
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> (all of my BNR installs across my networks) keep my usenet.csv file up to
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> date so I have a single file to search to see if I have 'ever' downloaded
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> something, I have loads of servers all being fed from a single overview
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> server, people think this .nzb thing is new saving you from downloading
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> headers, I have been doing the equivalent for years.
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> I will say that there does seem to be a problem when running more than 15
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> servers. and some of the newer servers I have been working with cause a
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> error in/with TConnection. Execute! and mean you have to start the server
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> as a group, but like every other long standing BNR err. there is a simple
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> work around.
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> just because somethings have a new version every month does not make it
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> better, why try to fix something that is not broke.
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> L_N
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