Additional features in the 2.x releases of NewsBin include automatic and manual modes for giving users greater control and flexibility in how NewsBin operates, multitasking (you can work on other things while NewsBin faithfully carries out its duties in the background), support for multiple news servers, the ability to obtain a complete listing of newsgroups for each server, compatibility with the SOCKS protocol, and support for up to fifty different newsgroups. NewsBin can also download as many binaries as you have RAM for, and it displays several status bars for keeping you posted on its progress.
The latest major releases, NewsBin Pro v3.x and 4.x, are complete re-writes of the NewsBin code. While more expensive than earlier releases ($35 compared to $19.95), versions 3 and 4 offer a ton of new features to go along with a redesigned interface that is much more attractive and easier to use.
Features new to NewsBin Pro 3 include thumbnail support (automatic thumbnail display of images), on-the-fly filtering, a poster lockout feature (a blacklist for automatically deleting obnoxious posters' articles), the ability to automatically launch viewer apps, improved duplication detection, and much more.
Features new to NewsBin Pro 4 include yEnc encoding support, a "Slave Server" feature, support for skins, record purging, per server connection limits, data rate limiter, per group filters, Master Splitter support, and NZB and BNS message ID file support.
