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Usenet is a worldwide, distributed discussion system that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called newsreaders are used to read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more newsgroups. Users must have access to a news server to use a newsreader. This is a list of such newsreaders.
Google Groups was the most popular and by far the largest Web-based Usenet archive (consisting of over 700 million posts dating from as early as 1981 [1]) until its advanced search functionality became nonfunctional in February 2015. [2] It discontinued Usenet operation in 2024.
alt.binaries.slack — artwork created by and for the Church of the SubGenius. alt.config — creation of new newsgroups in the alt.* hierarchy. alt.sex — the first alt.* newsgroup for discussion of sexual topics. alt.sex.stories — text-based erotic stories of all types. alt.suicide.holiday — pro-choice discussion of suicide.
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]
ISP-operated Usenet servers frequently block access to all alt.binaries.* groups to both reduce network traffic and to avoid related legal issues. Commercial Usenet service providers claim to operate as a telecommunications service, and assert that they are not responsible for the user-posted binary content transferred via their equipment.
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.
NZB is an XML-based file format for retrieving posts from NNTP servers. [4] The format was conceived by the developers of the Newzbin.com Usenet Index. [5] [6] NZB is effective when used with search-capable websites. [7]