NewsFerret Quick and Painless Usenet News Searching Forrest Stroud
Quick and Painless Usenet News Searching
Once you have entered the necessary information for a search, NewsFerret will contact the news server and find recent articles that match the keywords. After NewsFerret has compiled a list of results, you can scan the header of each article to see if any pique your interest. Accessing the article itself is a simple double-click away, thanks to NewsFerret's integrated article viewer. For the most part, NewsFerret works in outstanding fashion, but ultimately, like its fellow search clients, it can only be as accurate as the server it makes use of.
In other words, only those news groups that your news server actually carries can be searched; if your server lacks support for groups like the Clari.net newsfeeds, there is no way NewsFerret can search for articles within these groups. Despite this minor shortcoming, NewsFerret saves you the time and energy involved in locating and retrieving news articles that meet your interests.
