BotSpot Categories Newsgroup Bots Page 5 of 5 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 (FTP) sites with FileZ, FTP Search and Snoopie.  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. Google Groups Search for the latest news by filter or search option on all news groups on the Internet. (Formerly DejaNews.) 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. 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. 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. 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! 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 1    2    3    4     5