Free Usenet News Readers
Free and open source NNTP news clients
Free Usenet News Readers
These free Usenet news readers allow you to connect to NNTP servers to read and post Usenet articles. Most of the software have special facilities designed to handle binary files (pictures, music files, video files) found on some newsgroups, including the ability to decode them, automatically handle multi-part posts, save the files, automatically resume download of a partially downloaded multi-part post, and so on. They also include message filters, so that you don't have to view annoying posts or cross-posts, the ability to view messages using a threaded view, so that you can easily follow a discussion on a specific topic, and so on.
Note that although they use the same terminology ("news"), these Usenet newsreaders are different from the RSS and ATOM feed newsreaders found on the Free Offline News Feed Readers and News Aggregators page. Those handle the RSS feeds such as those you can find on thefreecountry.com and thesitewizard.com, allowing you to keep track of updates and additions on websites. Usenet news readers, on the other hand, allow you to participate in forum-like discussions (etc) in the Usenet newsgroups.
You may also wish to know that certain web browsers, like Opera, come with the ability to read/post Usenet articles built-in. Furthermore, certain email clients, such as Thunderbird listed on the Free Email Clients page, also allow you to read/post such articles. However, in general, these built-in facilities usually do not have the large feature-set and convenience features that the specialized Usenet clients listed here provide.
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Free Usenet NTTP News Clients
- XanaNews Newsreader (Windows)
XanaNews is a free, open source Usenet news reader for Windows. It supports multiple news servers (NNTP servers), threaded multi-column tree message display, the ability to save images and binary attachments, the ability to decode UUE, Base64, and yEncoded messages, message deletion feature that allows you to delete messages that don't match your criteria, the highlighting of threads with messages to you, the ability to cancel and resume an operation, batch mode operations, message filters, SSL support, integrated spell checker, etc.
- OSXnews: OSX Newsreader (Mac OS X)
This news reader for Mac OS X is designed to look and function like Apple Mail. It handles binary files, although at the time this review was written, only those encoded with yEnc and UUEncode. The decoding facility only works with single post binary files though. It displays news articles using the Safari webcore engine.
- Nomad News (Windows)
This free Usenet newsreader application for Windows supports up to 8 connections / streams per server, and is thus able to download multiple files and articles simultaneously, handles multi-part posts by automatically combining them into a single post, resumes downloading from a current part number if you are disconnected while downloading that part, supports UUE, yEnc, and MIME Base64 encoded files, progressively shows thumbnails of pictures while it is downloading, article filtering, wrapping of long titles, handles cross-posts, suports message threads, has a "work offline" facility, etc. You can also set the reader to check for new headers periodically at a time interval of your choosing.
- 40tude Dialog (Windows)
This is a Usenet newsreader for Windows. It supports Unicode and has a multilingual GUI, multiple servers and identities, has filtering and scoring support, integrated email, binary file support (including multi-part posts, support for UUEncoded files, MIME Base64 and yEnc encoding), internal viewers for video multimedia, a customizable user interface, multiple background threads, built-in spell checker, scripting support, importing/exporting of messages, address book, bookmarks, support for spoilers, signatures, etc. The program is free only for private users.
- iGrabNews (Mac OS X)
This Usenet binary news client for Mac OS X handles multi-part articles as a single article for easy browsing by downloading all the articles and decoding them as a single file. It supports multiple servers and groups, background multi-threading, a download queue, automatic decoding of uuencode, yEnc and BinHex files, NNTP authentication, etc. It is essentially a binary newsreader - it has no support for threaded display of articles or posting. This is a Universal binary application, that runs on OS X Panther (10.3.x) and Tiger (10.4.x). At the time I write this, Leopard is not supported.
- KLibido: KDE Linux Binaries Downloader (Linux)
This is a binaries news reader for Linux that handles the joining of multi-part posts, automatic decoding of posts, support for multiple servers, multiple download threads per server, download queue management (to pause, resume, cancel downloads, etc), etc.
- GNUS Usenet Newsreader (Linux, BSD, etc)
Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs (see the Free Programmer's Editors page), that supports reading and composing news and email. It is provided in source code form.
- XNews (Windows)
XNews is a free Usenet newsreader for Windows. Features include a quick filter where you can type in a regular expression (regex) and only the matching articles will be shown, advanced filtering, support for multiple servers and identities, remappable keyboard, binary handling (MIME, Base64, UUencode, etc), header and article caching, etc.
- Microplanet Gravity (Windows)
This is an open source Usenet news client for Windows. It supports a scoring system for its filters, and is customizable.
- WinVN: Windows Visual Newsreader (Windows)
This old, no longer maintained news reader for Windows 95/NET supports multiple server connections and viewing of multiple articles simultaneously.
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