Thoth

Thoth - Full-featured Usenet newsreader
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  • License:
  • Shareware
  • Price:
  • FREE | BUY the full version
  • Publisher Name:
  • Thoth Software
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://home.earthlink.net/~thoth-help/thoth.html
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
  • File Size:
  • 2.1 MB

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Thoth - Full-featured Usenet newsreader Thoth is usenet newsreader, available as a PowerPC binary for Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, localized for both English and French languages. To download Thoth you should have a valid registration previously purchased from Kagi.Most news servers are configured so that certain headers (usually Subject, From, Date, References, Lines, Message-ID, and Xref) are maintained by the server in a what's called the overview database. It's stored separately from the news articles, and is optimized to allow sending header data to client newsreader programs quickly and efficiently. (The Lines and Bytes pseudo-headers are also stored in this database.)Conversely, most news servers are configured to not return data for any other headers in response to an XHDR command from a newsreader.To fetch any other headers, the server would have to read all the posts in the requested range of article numbers and extract the desired header. That would load down the server. With the growth in usenet traffic over the past decade, most news providers disable fetching non-standard headers to keep from overloading the news server. (This same reasoning explains why most large commercial news servers also disable the XPAT command).The result of all this is that unless the newsreader downloads all the new articles for the user's subscribed newsgroups (or uses the HEAD command to download all the headers for those articles), it's not possible to filter on other than the above, standard headers. Limitations:· Thoth expires 30 days from when it was first installed if it has not been registered. · There's also a limit of 50 queued transfers or inline attachments displayed per session until Thoth has been registered. · Alerts reminding you that Thoth is shareware will be shown at startup until the program has been registered and you have entered your registration key. What's New in This Release: · The main change is a work-around for an issue with Giganews and similar news servers that return a 503 error code when an attempt is made to fetch an unavailable header type via the XHDR command.


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