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BotSpot Categories Newsgroup Bots |
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| CNN++ |
CNN++: An Intelligent News Filter Agent that helps you
retrieve documents from USENET news based on keyword
searches. |
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Deja News — Power Search |
Search for the latest news by filter or search option on
all news groups on the Internet. |
| DogPile |
DogPile searches the Web with Yahoo, Lycos, Excite Guide,
WWW Worm, WWW Yellow Pages, What U Seek, Lycos,
WebCrawler, InfoSeek, OpenText, AltaVista, Excite and
HotBot. Searches Usenet Newsgroups with HotBot News,
Reference.com, Dejanews, Excite News, Infoseek News,
AltaVista and Dejanews' old Database. Searches File
Transfer Protocol (FTP) sites with FileZ, FTP Search and
Snoopie. Fast, efficient and organized bot search.
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| Extractor 97 |
Extractor 97 scans newsgroups for binary attachments. Why
manually go through newsgroups extracting binaries? Just
start Extractor 97 and go. Extractor 97 features many new
features. |
| FAQFinder |
FAQFinder is an automated question-answering system that
uses the files of "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
associated with many USENET newsgroups. FAQFinder will
take a user's query on any topic, attempts to find the FAQ
file most likely to yield an answer, searches within the
file for similar questions, and returns the given answers. |
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Free Agent News Reader |
Free Agent is your free guide to news, fun and information
in the Usenet newsgroups. Free Agent is offered as
freeware and is available in both 16-bit and 32-bit
versions. Free Agent can be configured for online and
offline operation and has many outstanding features. |
| Green Eggs Report |
A collection of 1,500 new and unique URL's spotted by the
Rumor Database System daily from the Usenet Spool as it
goes by. |
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GroupLens Recommendation System |
The GroupLens system is an article recommendation system
for electronic forums, specifically Usenet news. The
purpose of GroupLens is to increase the value of time
spent reading electronic forums. The GroupLens system
makes reading Internet news productive again by
highlighting articles of likely interest and warning
against articles that will not be interesting. |
| InfoScan |
InfoScan is a filtering tool for evaluating information
available on networks. The main goal is to optimize the
use of information sources already known by the user:
electronic mail, News, local or remote databases, and so
on. The full text of the articles is scanned and evaluated
according to the keywords chosen by the user. The articles
are displayed in a graphical and intuitive way so that the
most interesting ones can be spotted immediately. |
| Intellinews |
Intellinews is a fee based service providing near-real
time monitoring of Usenet newsgroups and delivery via
email of postings that match search criteria. |
| NewsMate |
NewsMate is a Windows based, 32 bit application that
connects to news servers and captures photos to a
directory you specify. Use it to create a portfolio of
your favorite pictures. Eliminate cross-posting, known
spammers and hours searching through articles. Keeps a
history of what it has downloaded and pieces multi-part
images together for you. |
| NewsMonger |
NewsMonger delivers complete, automatic monitoring of the
Internet's largest source of timely information, the
USENET news service. It is designed for Windows95 and NT.
Monitor your competition or your company's postings! |
| NewsRoute |
NewsRoute is an Information Filtering Bot service that
routes USENET articles. If you become a member, you will
be able to create a set of profiles, or queries. NewsRoute
will read through the incoming USENET feed and save
articles which it believes are relevant to your query. |
| News Rover |
News Rover is the ultimate tool for extracting information
from Usenet newsgroups. News Rover automates the process
of searching for messages, downloading them, decoding file
attachments and reconstructing files that are split
across multiple messages. News Rover does all of this
automatically while you are at work, sleeping or browsing
the net. |
| NewzBot |
NewzBot is an extremely comprehensive resource page of
USENET entities. |
| PCast |
PCast downloads pictures from the Internet and displays
them in a browser type interface. PCast searches the
Internet USENET by category to find the fastest, freest
pictures it can and then displays them all. The pictures
are saved to disk so you can see them later a well when
they are downloading. It even has a bulit in zoom. |
| PHOAKS |
As a collaborative filtering site, PHOAKS exists to help
us all help each other find appropriate and relevant web
resources in a simple and timely manner. People post their
opinions of web resources in Usenet Netnews and around the
clock PHOAKS reads, classifies, abstracts and tallies
those opinions automatically. PHOAKS' pages then reflect
the results. |
| PictureAgent |
PictureAgent is a 32 bit multithreaded news client for
Windows 95/NT designed to scan the Usenet newsgroups for
pictures based upon criteria selected by the user. As each
picture is selected, it is downloaded and decoded directly
to disk. Depending on the speed of your connection, and
the number of files on your server, it's possible to
retrieve 50 Megs or more of pictures in a several hour
session. |
| PictureHarvester |
PictureHarvester, an integrated Java/Javascript/HTML
accessory program for the Netscape Communicator(tm) open
e-mail, groupware, and browser suite, automatically finds,
retrieves, and saves picture files from Internet
newsgroups for later viewing -- no more tedious pointing
and clicking through newsgroups. It operates in unattended
mode: the user can start the program and come back to view
the pictures at a later time. It also has killfile and
other spam-blocking functions. |
| Pluckit |
Pluckit allows you to easily find and download pictures,
games, fonts, zip files and other binary attachments from
newsgroups. Tangle-It allows your to hide your picture files
from prying eyes. Sort-It sorts your picture files into different
groups or categorize a large collection of clip art. |
Reference.com
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Searches for any information in over 16,000 Usenet
newsgroups and publicly-accessible mailing lists. The
results are either emailed daily to you or made available
at your own personal World Wide Web Site. |
| RoboBear |
RoboBear is a search engine for newsgroups automatically
decoding pictures, sounds and movies, and updates a
scrollable slideshow of thumbnail miniatures (for pictures)
and icons (for sounds and movies). Just click on an item
to enlarge the picture, hear the sound or watch the movie
- all while RoboBear is busy obtaining the next article.
It can also be run from the command line. |
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Sonador Automated Usenet Service |
The Sonador Automated Usenet Service searches Usenet
newsgroups for a set of keywords you specify. The header
and body of each newsgroup posting in your chosen
newsgroup is scanned for your keywords, and if a match is
found, the article is emailed to you. The integrity of
attachments is maintained. The Services searches your
groups once each day, and remembers the articles it has
already sent you. Posting a reply to the news post is as
simple as replying to the News Agent that sent you the
email. Paying for the service is as easy as the price:
Free. |
| TIFNY |
TIFNY has a visual, powerful and automated interface to
the images in the USENET newsgroups. You can reach the
entire photographic content of the newsgroups without
effort and finally discover its treasures. |
WiseWire
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WiseWire intelligently gathers online material and quickly
"learns" your interests. WiseWire uses advanced neural
technology to filter all types of digital content that is
personally relevant to you. It then categorizes, rates,
and delivers Web pages, newswire articles, Usenet
newsgroups, and a growing list of premium content sources. |