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Category:  Communications » Email Utilities
Perform a pattern (XPAT) search on a news server. This has the advantage of being much faster than downloading all of the headers from the server because you only DL the headers you want. You can then create an NZB file from the results. The NZB file that you create can be imported into many popular newsreaders and downloaders.

Category:  Network & Internet » Other
Nzbedit is a free GUI editor designed to let you edit the contents of an NZB file. You can change the fields of the NZB including the subject an author fields. You can do searches and replaces, delete parts or segments, etc. It's useful if you have an NZB file that has a mistake in it and you need to fix it, or you've downloaded an NZB file that includes some files that you don't want and you want to remove them before downloading.

Category:  Network & Internet » Download Managers
Nzbval is a free utility that you can use you test an NZB file against your news server and verify that all of the parts exist before you start downloading. It can save you a lot of time because you can avoid downloading from .NZB files that have missing parts. Missing parts can ruin a download, wasting time and bandwidth, and nzbval is designed to prevent that from happening. Nzbval is free for noncommercial use.

Category:  Network & Internet » Other
nzbdump is a free tool that displays the contents of an NZB file. Nzbdump is not a newsreader or downloader, and cannot download files for you. It's main a diagnostic tool that you might be able to use if you're having trouble with an NZB file. NZB files are files that are used to index newsgroup articles. They can be used by many newsreaders to help piece together complicated multi-part newsgroup binaries.

Category:  Network & Internet » Other
Usenet Newsreader Benchmark is a tool for benchmarking the performance of your usenet newsgroup server. Learn how your server and internet connection perform, and compare the performance to other installations to see if you're getting the most bang for your buck. A simple freeware tool with no hassles.

Category:  Network & Internet » Other
Simple Little Usenet Test ("SLUT") is a program to test usenet newsgroup servers. It's primarily intended to be used as a way to verify that your account details are correct and/or to diagnose what goes wrong when a problem occurs. Type in three pieces of information: server name, user name, and password. The software will then connect to your news server and perform a few simple operations such as logging on, downloading headers & messages.