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On Jan 17, 2019, TheCosmicJukebox] don't.be wrote
(in article<PdKdne9-KqokttzBnZ2dnUU7-Y_NnZ2d@giganews.com>):
> I asked on the groups a long while back which app/utility people were using
> to post stuff in these groups?
> Someone suggested simply posting through NewsNin Pro. I tried that. Never
> seen so many incomplete files in my life!
> I dug out an old free utility called Easy Post v3.0. It works fine, but I can
> only load one album at a time and there seems no way of getting rid of those
> pointless descript.ion files it insists on adding to each post.
> I dug out an old free app/utility called SharkPost v1.0. It'll let me load as
> many sets of files as I want, each with their own subject line. Great. Just
> what I wanted! It even saves posts to a History file. The trouble is, it has
> so many enforced limitations, designed to avoid problems with older
> servers/software, that it's almost unusable now.
> Certain characters, such as /[]() will not be accepted. Then there's a limit
> to how long the subject line can be. Once you've gone to all the trouble of
> tweaking all the filenames to avoid these limitations, you can still fall
> foul of the upper character limit of subject line, plus file name. In these
> cases, you aren't warned. You just look up to find that Sharkpost has crashed.
> All I want is to be able to set up a batch of albums to post in the
> background, so I can get on with something else while it runs.
> SharkPost has given me so much trouble today, as evidenced by my having to
> post the par2 files for one album separately with Easy Post, that It's cost
> me more time than it's saved.
> Does anyone have any useful suggestions?
> CJ
My personal solution was to buy a Mac and use Hogwasher. I never found
Windows NG software to be very friendly.
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