Source Code for NewsProxy

Jim Thompson

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Jul 4, 2008, 1:23:37 PM7/4/08

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I believe it was JosephKK who promised to post source code for
NewsProxy??

Could you do that? I'll pass it on to my son, who I'm sure can
modernize it and fix the crash mechanism.

Thanks!

donald

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Jul 4, 2008, 2:41:25 PM7/4/08

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Jim Thompson wrote:
> I believe it was JosephKK who promised to post source code for
> NewsProxy??

Google came up with this link for source:
http://www.warezfaq.com/downloads.htm

Towards the bottom of the page.

It says v1.2. I hope this is not too old.

donald

Greg Neill

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Jul 4, 2008, 1:50:57 PM7/4/08

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"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-Th...@My-Web-Site.com> wrote
in message news:p0ns641irleuefpn8...@4ax.com

> I believe it was JosephKK who promised to post source code for
> NewsProxy??
>
> Could you do that? I'll pass it on to my son, who I'm sure can
> modernize it and fix the crash mechanism.

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

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Jul 4, 2008, 4:27:48 PM7/4/08

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Thanks, Greg!!!

All the previous sites I had found had a corrupted zipfile :-(

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JeffM

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Jul 4, 2008, 5:45:31 PM7/4/08

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>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?q=*-*-*-source-code+*-*-another-*-version-with-complete-source+nfilter+but-without-complete-source+zzz+rebranded.NewsProxy+modified-*-*-*-and-released-as-*-*-freeware-*+Nobody-*-ever-demonstrated-*-*-malicious-activity
news:13d9d6j...@news.supernews.com

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JosephKK

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Jul 6, 2008, 2:19:14 PM7/6/08

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On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:23:37 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-Th...@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

>I believe it was JosephKK who promised to post source code for
>NewsProxy??
>
>Could you do that? I'll pass it on to my son, who I'm sure can
>modernize it and fix the crash mechanism.
>
>Thanks!
>
> ...Jim Thompson

i finally found my zip and emailed it to you. It is a shame that the
link on the master web page has been broken for a while.

JosephKK

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Jul 6, 2008, 2:30:53 PM7/6/08

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On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:48:01 +0000 (UTC), "Bill" wrote:

>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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