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The Pan newsreader for GNOME. A newsreader is a software application that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups. [1] Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new articles. [2]
[57] [58] On February 4, 2011, the Usenet news service link at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (news.unc.edu) was retired after 32 years. [citation needed] In response, John Biggs of TechCrunch said "As long as there are folks who think a command line is better than a mouse, the original text-only social network will live on". [59]
A newsreader, also known as a news client, is a software application that reads articles on Usenet, either directly from the news server's disks or via the NNTP. The well-known TCP port 119 is reserved for NNTP. Well-known TCP port 433 (NNSP) may be used when doing a bulk transfer of articles from one server to another.
The browser interface offered by Web-based Usenet providers is typically known as a Usenet browser. When binary content is supported, it is already compiled and ready for viewing. Normally, they will have a thumbnail format for their images and videos to make browsing much faster and simpler. Typically, there is no setup for Web-based Usenet.
Pan is a news client for multiple operating systems, developed by Charles Kerr and others. It supports offline reading, multiple servers, multiple connections, fast (indexed) article header filtering and mass saving of multi-part attachments encoded in uuencode, yEnc and base64; images in common formats can be viewed inline.
Kate Silverton (born 4 August 1970) is an English child therapist.She formerly worked as a broadcaster and newsreader for the BBC.Silverton was a regular presenter of BBC News at One and BBC Weekend News, as well as making occasional appearances on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
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Newsreader can refer to: Newsreader (Usenet), a computer program for reading Usenet newsgroups; Newsreaders, a television series on Adult Swim; News presenter, a person that presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet; News aggregator, a computer program for syndicated Web content supplied in the form of a web feed