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Gnus, is an email and news client, and feed reader for GNU Emacs. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source [1] cross-platform email client, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Pan a full-featured text and binary NNTP and Usenet client for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and Windows.
Usenet newsgroups are traditionally accessed by a newsreader. The user must obtain a news server account and a newsgroup reader. With Web-based Usenet, all of the technical aspects of setting up an account and retrieving content are alleviated by allowing access with one account. The content is made available for viewing via any Web browser.
Windows: Proprietary: Part of Windows, up to Windows Server 2003: Pan: GUI: Combination Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Free Unix-like, 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 ...
Although Usenet originally started as a text-based messaging system without any file attachment ability, many Usenet users today do not participate in discussion groups, as was common during the 1980s and 1990s and only use newsgroups for downloading files such as music, movies, pornography, software and games. Therefore, streamlined clients ...
Web front ends have lowered the technical entry barrier requirements to that of one application and no Usenet NNTP server account. There are numerous websites now offering web based gateways to Usenet groups, although some people have begun filtering messages made by some of the web interfaces for one reason or another.
It is based on the TASS newsreader, whose source code had been posted in 1991 on Usenet by Rich Skrenta. [4] The work on tin was begun shortly afterward by Iain Lea, [5] who provided information for the IETF RFC 2980. [6] [7] Since 1996, tin has been maintained by Urs Janßen. The program is generally compared with trn or nn.
The GrabIt program is solely used to read and download binaries from usenet news server. GrabIt has Yenc and NZB support and can have up to 50 simultaneous connections. [citation needed] GrabIt is one of the few newsreaders to include a search function. This search function searches all of the newsgroups on the Shemes news service.
Xnews is a freeware Usenet newsreader created by Luu Tran. [1] It is written in Delphi, and it is 100% GNKSA 2.0 compliant. Some of its features were inspired by the program NewsXpress. Tran says that he designs the Xnews interface and features for himself only, reflecting his "preferences, habits, and sensibility."