vPowerServe

The most advanced list-server as miRC add-on.

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Version 2.03 (1020 KiB)

Features

Intuitive interface.
Easy to use.
Fast with small footprint.
Requires less memory to run than any other listserver, yet it is more advanced.
Support for multiple channels and networks.
Support for multiple lists, triggers.
Support for multiple advertisements. Free form support for the ads (you can construct your own ad!).
Exhaustive statistics.
Supports resend.
User groups. Set different option for specified users, like max concurrent sends, priority, ignore, max allowed requested files.
Fast listmaker.
Listmaker implemented in form of plug-in. Might use different than the default one.
Extremely fast search. Set per channel and also option to ignore specified list on searching.
Flood settings per network. Special consideration for undernet to avoid "target change too fast error".
Free form for list header.
Transparency - visualises nearly everything and provides understandable Log for many of its actions.

Requirements

Windows 2000 or later.
mIRC
WinRAR for compressing the lists.

Installation

Extract the archive into mIRC main folder. The structure of the archive will generate a vPowerServe folder into the mIRC one. Open your mIRC and give the command: /load -rs vPowerServe/vPowerServe.mrc
That will load vPowerServe & ready to use!

Changes:

v2.03

Updates in database, database access should be faster now.
Minor memory leak fixed.
New advertisement variables: average send speed, average global speed and current global speed.

v2.02

Fixed random crash on first load.

v2.01

Minor changes for list maker.

v2.0

Random text files. This is to display random text in advertisements, that is to be read from specified text files.
Add channel wizard.
Pause/Resume button on main dialog.
TAB to select the view replaced with toolbar.
Menu added.
Channels manager: new column that indicates if sharing is enabled. Also menu to enable/disable sharing in a channel.
Lists boost send. That is additional send slots beyond the global set one but only for lists. In order not to delay deliver of lists.
Log updated with a lot new information.
Advertisements: edit was never easier! Now it displays colours & character formatting as it will be on mIRC.
Queues: shows percent transferred.
Status bar: it displays number of sending items for regular and lists. Also, total number of queued for regular and lists, and the number of holding items.
Also, it shows the upload speed on status bar. For uploads handled by vPowerServe, of course.
Option to specify the font for the different lists.
Search now runs in separate thread. Also, it logs search results and timing.
Small-size queue send boost. That is similar to lists send boost. But for files that belong to small-size queue. You can specify the size limit per channel.
Flood control: option to remove old un-sent messages from queue. You can specify the max. waiting time for messages in queue (per network).
Option to enable/disable sharing in a channel via context menu in channels manager.
Tabbed per channel queues display. Also queues for small-size & 'sending'.
It allows to reset the stats.
Limit for the number of lines in log.

Quick start guide

Create one or more lists. Assign them folders and finally, generate them.
Create one or more ads. Edit the text for it.
Add a channel in specified network. Give the full channel name & for network, the network name (ex. "UnderNet" ) Add one or more lists for the channel, by moving them to "current".

Screenshots

vPowerGet users manager

Credits

Vangelis Dimou: Concept, design, implementation, programming. Vangelis.Dimou@gmail.com

Beta testers: QuietSilence, tIlldEath, pera, EBrarian, Tantric, Joanne, SpankyDAM, Gojita, Hamner.