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This is a comparison of Usenet newsreaders .
Name | Interface | Type of Client | Downloading headers XOVER | PAR | NZB | unZip or unRAR | Integrated Search Service (retention / $$$/yr) | IPv6 | SSL/TLS | Audio Video Streaming | Price | Platform | License | Other |
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Arachne | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | Free | DOS, Unix-like | GPL | ||||||
BinTube | GUI | Binary Grabber | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (3200 Days / Free) | Yes | Yes | Yes | $59.95 / Free with subscription | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | Streams media while downloading; Free with Usenet Service |
Claws Mail | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes [1] | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Free | Cross-platform | GPL | ||
Forté Agent | GUI | Combination | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | $29 | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | Includes 3 month newsgroup service trial; Shareware | |||
Gnus | Text-based | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Free | Cross-platform | GPL | Runs in Emacs; also does Email |
GrabIt | GUI | Binary Grabber | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes ( 30 days / $24.99/yr ) | No | Yes | Free (searching extra) | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | Usenet Search Service | |
GroupWise | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | Varies | Microsoft Windows, Unix-like | Proprietary | ||||||
HCL Notes | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | Varies | Microsoft Windows, Unix-like, Mac OS X | Proprietary | ||||||
KNode | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Free | Unix-like | GPL | KDE | |||
Lynx | Text-based | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Free | Cross-platform | GPL | Limited USENET support | |||
Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | No | No | Free | Cross-platform | MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license | Replaced by SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups | |||
Mozilla Thunderbird | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Free | Cross-platform | MPL | Plugin support | |
Newsbin Pro | GUI | Binary Grabber | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes ( $10/yr ) | Yes | Yes | $20 | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | Shareware | |
NewsLeecher | GUI | Combination | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Optional extra Add $10 per year | No | Yes | Varies | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | Shareware | |
Opera Mail | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Free | Cross-platform | Proprietary | Part of Opera up to version 12.17 | ||
Outlook Express | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | Part of Microsoft Windows (up to Windows Server 2003) | ||
Pan | GUI | Combination | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Free | Unix-like, Microsoft Windows | GPL | Gtk+ | ||
Seamonkey Mail & Newsgroups | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Free | Cross-platform | MPL | Replaced Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups | |
slrn | text-based | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | Yes (using macros) | Yes (using macros) | Yes (using macros) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Free | Cross-platform | GPLv2+ | Highly extensible using S-Lang scripts (macros) |
Sylpheed | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | Yes | Free | Cross-platform | GPL/LGPL | Gtk+ | ||||
tin | text-based | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Free | Unix-like | BSD | Free Software | ||
Unison | GUI | Combination | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (audio only) | Free | Mac OS X | Proprietary | Development has ceased. Free but unsupported. |
Usenet Explorer | GUI | Combination | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes ( 1500 days / $23.34/yr ) | Yes | Yes | $35 | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | Shareware | |
Windows Live Mail | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | Yes | Free | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | |||||||
Windows Mail | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | Part of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. No Newsgroup or Usenet support in Windows 10. [2] [ better source needed ] | |||||||
Xnews | GUI | Combination | Yes | No | No (Can create NBZs) | No | Free | Microsoft Windows | Proprietary | |||||
XPN | GUI | Traditional Newsreader | Yes | No | No | Yes | Free | Cross-platform | GPL | |||||
Name | Interface | Type of Client | Downloading headers XOVER | PAR | NZB | unZip unRAR | Integrated Search Service (retention / $$$/yr) | IPv6 | SSL/TLS | Audio Video Streaming | Price | Platform | License | Other |
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A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are discussion groups and are not devoted to publishing news. Newsgroups are technically distinct from, but functionally similar to, discussion forums on the World Wide Web. Newsreader software is used to read the content of newsgroups.
rn is a news client written by Larry Wall and originally released in 1984. It was one of the first newsreaders to take full advantage of character-addressable CRT terminals. Previous newsreaders, such as readnews, were mostly line-oriented and designed for use on the printing terminals which were common on the early Unix minicomputers where the Usenet software and network originated. Later variants of the original rn program included rrn, trn, and strn.
The Great Renaming was a restructuring of Usenet newsgroups that took place in 1987. B News maintainer and UUNET founder Rick Adams is generally considered to be the initiator of the Renaming.
Newsreader can refer to:
A news server is a collection of software used to handle Usenet articles. It may also refer to a computer itself which is primarily or solely used for handling Usenet. Access to Usenet is only available through news server providers.
The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for reading/posting articles by the end user client applications. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego, and Phil Lapsley of the University of California, Berkeley, wrote RFC 977, the specification for the Network News Transfer Protocol, in March 1986. Other contributors included Stan O. Barber from the Baylor College of Medicine and Erik Fair of Apple Computer.
B News was a Usenet news server developed at the University of California, Berkeley by Matt Glickman and Mary Ann Horton as a replacement for A News. It was used on Unix systems from 1981 into the 1990s and is the reference implementation for the de facto Usenet standard described in RFC 850 and RFC 1036. Releases from 2.10.2 were maintained by UUNET founder Rick Adams.
X-No-Archive, also known colloquially as xna, is a newsgroup message header field used to prevent a Usenet message from being archived in various servers.
Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups.
Gmane is an e-mail to news gateway. It allows users to access electronic mailing lists as if they were Usenet newsgroups, and also through a variety of web interfaces. Since Gmane is a bidirectional gateway, it can also be used to post on the mailing lists. Gmane is an archive; it never expires messages. Gmane also supports importing list postings made prior to a list's inclusion on the service.
Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests. The Groups service also provides a gateway to Usenet newsgroups, both reading and posting to them, via a shared user interface. In addition to accessing Google and Usenet groups, registered users can also set up mailing list archives for e-mail lists that are hosted elsewhere.
Forté Agent is an email and Usenet news client used on the Windows operating system. Agent was conceived, designed and developed by Mark Sidell and the team at Forté Internet Software in 1994 to address the need for an online/offline newsreader which capitalized on the emerging Windows GUI framework. By 1995, Agent had expanded to become a full-featured email client and remains a widely used application for integrating news and email communication on Windows. Agent supports POP email but not IMAP.
Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups was an e-mail and news client that was part of the Mozilla Application Suite.
tin is an open-source, text-based, threaded newsreader, used to read and post messages on Usenet, the worldwide distributed discussion system.
GrabIt is a freeware Usenet newsreader for Windows developed by Ilan Shemes.
A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups. Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new articles. In addition to text-based articles, Usenet is also used to distribute binary files, generally in dedicated "binaries" newsgroups.
Newsbin Pro is a shareware Usenet newsreader client for Microsoft Windows. It is developed by DJI Interprises
Usenet, USENET, or "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980. Users read and post messages to one or more topic categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to the Internet forums that have become widely used. Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSes, though posts are stored on the server sequentially.
Usenet, a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system, can be accessed through Web browsers as well as through dedicated news clients.
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