, these also tend to be the most difficult to learn. Example Usenet Explorer . See also List of Usenet newsreaders Comparison of Usenet newsreaders Category Usenet clients de Newsreader es Lector de noticias fr Lecteur de nouvelles ko it Newsreader nl NewsreaderUsenet pl Newsreader zh Usenet ...Verifiability date October 2009 A newsreader is an application software application program that reads articles on Usenet a distributed discussion system, which groups its content into a hierarchy of subject related Usenet newsgroup newsgroups , each of which contains multiple threads or discussions . 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 increasingly used to distribute binary files, generally in dedicated binaries newsgroups. The term news reader is sometimes erroneously used interchangeably with news aggregator . Newsreaders that help users to adhere to the established conventions of Usenet, known as netiquette , are evaluated by the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval GNKSA . There are several different types of newsreaders, depending on the type of service the user needs &mdash whether intended primarily for discussion or for downloading files posted to the alt.binaries hierarchy. Although Usenet originally started as a text based messaging system without any file attachment ability, many Usenet users today do not participate in Network News Transfer Protocol discussion groups, as was common during the 1980s and 1990s before the emergence of website forums, and only use Newsgroups for downloading files such as music, movies, software and games. Therefore, their needs call for a streamlined client for quickly grabbing binary attachments, and without the extraneous clutter of text reading and posting features for which file ... Agent , Xnews , nn newsreader nn , and tin newsreader tin . Binary grabbers pluckers Used specifically ... more details
Wiktionary Newsreader can refer to NewsreaderUsenet , a computer program for reading Usenet newsgroups 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 disambig id Pembaca berita nl Newsreader ... more details
s that are widely used today. Usenet can be superficially regarded as a hybrid between email and web forums. Discussions are Threaded discussion threaded , with modern NewsreaderUsenet news reader software ..., as well as announcements through the newly developed NewsreaderUsenet news software such as A News . The name Usenet emphasized its creators hope that the USENIX organization would take an active role ... client software that connects to a news server. NewsreaderUsenetNewsreader clients are available for all ... dedicated Usenet servers accessible via NewsreaderUsenetnewsreader or via the Web in forums as well ...Use mdy dates date February 2012 File Usenet servers and clients.svg 250px thumb A diagram of Usenet ... indicate that a user is subscribed to a certain group and reads or submits articles. Usenet is a worldwide ... Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980. ref name Lueg From Usenet to CoWebs ... termed news to one or more categories, known as Usenet newsgroup newsgroup s. Usenet resembles ... difference between a BBS or web forum and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store ..., or employer. Introduction Usenet is one of the oldest computer network communications systems still ... pub news a a.news.tar.Z USENET A General Access UNIX Network . inside archive as usenet uprop.n ref The articles that users post to Usenet are organized into topical categories called newsgroups, which .... The later peer to peer networks operate on a similar principle but for Usenet it is normally ... protocol in the era of abundant high speed network access. Usenet was designed for the times when networks were much slower, and not always available. Many sites on the original Usenet network ... School of Computer Science. ref Usenet has significant cultural importance in the networked world ... electronic spam . ref cite web url http www.newsdemon.com usenet term spam.php title USENET Newsgroup ... more details
Thoth ref http www.appgarth.com thoth.html Thoth . App Garth. Retrieved 20 September 2011. ref is a NewsreaderUsenetnewsreader for Mac OS X written by Brian Clark, currently at its revision 1.9.0.16. It requires Mac OS X 10.5.0. References Reflist Category Mac OS X software Category Usenet clients network software stub ... more details
Multiple issues COI March 2009 unreferenced March 2009 notability March 2009 Infobox Software name Groundhog screenshot caption developer Juanjo Alvarez Almarsoft latest release version 1.7.0 latest release date 2009 02 19 operating system Android operating system Android genre news client OSI approved yes license GNU General Public License GPL v2 website https code.launchpad.net groundhog launchpad.net Groundhog is a Usenet Newsreader Usenet newsreader for the Android operating system Android mobile platform. It was published by Almarsoft on March 5, 2009 on the Android Market . In 2010 it was released under the free and open source software license GPL version 2 on launchpad.net. It supports the following features Online offline operation modes. Binary attachments in MIME or uuencoded format only for reading. Colors for the different levels of quoting. Basic threading, grouping articles with similar subject together, marking changes on subject and using a level indicator using ASCII chars. Basic scoring using stars, and filtering of threads and authors. Mail forwarding of Usenet messages. See also Comparison of Usenet newsreaders Category Free Usenet clients Category Android software ... more details
lowercase title nn nn No News is Good News is a Unix based news client , which is a client software program for accessing Usenet servers. nn was originally written in 1984 by Kim F. Storm to provide an alternative more user friendly way to access Usenet than the existing newsreaders. nn is currently at version 6.7.3, and is now maintained by Michael T. Pins . nn was known for its mode separation between choosing and reading articles. Threads were presented for reading or skipping, and once all choices in a newsgroup were made, the user continued on to reading the selected articles. See also List of news clients External links http www.nndev.org The nn newsreader &mdash the official nn homepage. Category Usenet clients unix stub network software stub ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2008 A Usenet newsgroup is a wikt repository repository usually within the Usenet ... Newsreader software is used to read newsgroups. Newsgroups are much like the public message boards ... providers blocking access to Usenet see main article , newsgroups continue to be widely used. Citation ... users and servers with limited facilities to minimize network bandwidth usage. Generally, Usenet ... or phishing issues. There are currently well over 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, but only 20,000 ... of thousand messages a day. Non Usenet newsgroups are possible and do occur, as private individuals ... a number of obstacles to the transmission of binary files over Usenet. First, Usenet was designed ... characters which would survive transmission over Usenet. At the receiver s end, the data needed to be decoded ... retrieve the file. These advances have meant that Usenet is used to send and receive many terabytes ... blog 2011 05 announcing 1000 days retention prize.html title 9 petabyte of usenet storage ... retention times, as well as growing Internet Uploading and downloading upload speeds, Usenet is also used by individual users to store backup data in a practice called Usenet backup , or uBackup. ref cite web url http www.wikihow.com Backup Your Data on Usenet 28Ubackup 29 title usenet backup ... on Usenet is free of charge although access to Usenet itself may not be . The method requires the user ... to all Usenet providers, so there will be multiple copies of it spread over different geographical ..., outside of the Big 8 and alt. hierarchies, are failure prone. Hierarchies Main Big 8 Usenet Newsgroups ... commonly known hierarchies are the Usenet hierarchies . So for instance newsgroup rec.arts.sf.starwars.games would be in the rec. top level Usenet hierarchy, where the asterisk is defined as a wildcard character . There were seven original major hierarchies of Usenet newsgroups, known as the Big 7 comp. Discussion of computer related topics news. Discussion of Usenet itself sci. Discussion of scientific ... more details
on TASS software TASS newsreader, whose source code had been posted in 1991 on USENET by Rich Skrenta ... Usenet clients Category Termcap Category Terminfo Category Curses programming library de Tin Newsreader id Tin newsreader pl Tin sv Tin newsreader ... 9003d570c82ed9a1?tvc 1 9003d570c82ed9a1 title Tass 3.2 newsreader author Rick Skrenta newsgroup ... title ANNOUNCEMENT tin v1.00 YAN Yet Another Newsreader author Iain Lea date August 24, 1991 newsgroup ... by Urs Jan en. The program is generally compared with rn newsreader trn or nn newsreader nn . ref cite ... Guide &mdash pages Chapter 24. Newsreader Configuration first Olaf last Kirch coauthors Terry Dawson ... using gettext , as well as IPv6 support have kept the application current. Unlike rn newsreader trn or nn newsreader nn , it is easy to follow the progress of changes since 1995 in tin because ... more details
one source date September 2010 lowercase title rn newsreader rn short for Read News is a news client or newsreader 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 vnews , by Kenneth Almquist was first . 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 . ref cite web url http www.faqs.org faqs usenet software part1 title Usenet Software History and Sources author Mark Moraes date December 28, 1999 ref Features rn was also notable for three other features it introduced kill file KILL files , do the right thing , and automatic configuration. The KILL file was a file called, obviously enough, tt KILL tt containing regular expressions matched against the subjects of news articles in each group if an article matched, it would be marked as having already been read. This feature proved essential as the growth of the Usenet made it impossible to read every article in even a limited selection of newsgroups. Do the right thing was a fundamental change in the user ... all of the Usenet software, were distributed in source code form. Because different vendors ..., such as autoconf . History Like all of the original newsreaders and the Usenet software itself ... threaded newsreader, was needed as users gradually switched from a read most, kill few model ..., using headers that had long been present in Usenet articles but practically unused, a threaded newsreader would allow users to keep up with topics and discussions they were interested without having to explicitly deselect uninteresting threads. Kim F. Storm s nn newsreader nn newsreader was the first ... Category Free Usenet clients ... more details
nofootnotes date September 2009 Usenet II was a proposed alternative to the classic Usenet hierarchy, started in 1998 . Unlike the original Usenet, it was peered only between sound sites and employs a system of rules to keep out spam. The network still exists, but has carried almost no posts apart from FAQs for many years. The newsgroup hierarchy revived the old naming system used by Usenet before the Great Renaming . All groups had names starting net. , which serve to distinguish them from the Big 8 misc., sci., news., rec., soc., talk., comp., humanities. . A separate checkgroup system, using the same technical mechanism as the one produced by David C. Lawrence for the Big 8, enforced the Usenet II hierarchy and prevents the creation of unauthorized newsgroups within it. The basic principles ... responsible for the content of specific portions of the namespace, or hierarchies. Usenet II had strictly enforced rules. Readers of messages in Usenet II must be fully compliant with the RFC 1036 Usenet standard plus some additional format compliance rules specific to Usenet II. A message header must ... every day or every week is not permitted. There are a number of Usenet II hosts still operating, but traffic is largely limited to FAQ postings. The effort to extend Usenet II was abandoned as technical means to fight spam and other abuse on traditional Usenet became more effective and spammers migrated from Usenet to email. Usenet II policies have been adopted by private and restricted distribution Usenet hierarchies. See also Network News Transfer Protocol Usenet References and external links http groups.google.com groups dir?sel 33600196&expand 1 Usenet II on Google Groups http wired vig.wired.com news technology 0,1282,10538,00.html Usenet II Freedom or Tyranny? HotWired story, February 26, 1998 http wired vig.wired.com news technology 0,1282,11425,00.html Usenet II Urges Netizens to Come On In HotWired story, April 2, 1998 Category Usenet Compu network stub de Usenet II ... more details
Pan Newsreader Category Usenet clients Category Free Usenet clients Category Linux internet software Category BSD software network software stub de Pan Newsreader es Pan software fr Pan logiciel ja ... 2005 06 17 maemo applications comment 88 accessdate 2011 01 25 ref Image Screenshot of Pan newsreader ... more details
Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation ARMM was a program developed by Richard Depew in 1993 to aid in the control of Usenet abuse. Concerned by abusive posts emanating from certain anonymous posting sites, Depew developed ARMM to allow news administrators to automatically issue cancel messages for such posts. This was a controversial act, as many news administrators and users were concerned about censorship of the netnews medium. An early version of ARMM contained a bug which caused it to post follow ups to its own messages, recursively sending posts to the news.admin.policy newsgroup. This was an early example of unintentional Usenet spamming spam . ref http www.catb.org esr jargon html A ARMM.html ARMM Bot generated title ref ref http groups.google.com groups?selm tweekC4qM0A.H3q netcom.com ref References references Category Usenet Category Spam filtering tr ARMM Usenet ... more details
Primary sources date May 2009 Infobox Software name Usenet Explorer logo screenshot caption author developer developer Alex Birj released 2005 latest release version 3.1 latest release date 2010 29 08 latest preview version latest preview date programming language operating system Microsoft Windows Windows platform language status Active genre News client license Proprietary software Proprietary , Shareware website http www.usenetexplorer.com UsenetExplorer.com Usenet Explorer is a news client for the Microsoft Windows operating system also fully compatible with the Linux Wine software Citation needed date April 2011 . It is designed to handle binary and text Usenet posts, and is capable of handling newsgroups as large as hundred million headers Citation needed date April 2011 . A Usenet indexing service with 750 day retention and Boolean logic boolean wildmat as search pattern language is integrated into the program. Releases following v2.0 include automatic unpacking feature par2 repair unrar joining split files without user intervention when using integrated search or nzb file as a download source the download is presented as a single combined entry so called custom collection and all the way to the ready to view or listen media files then becomes seamless and completely automatic. This simple routine makes the program valuable to novice Usenet users. Usenet Explorer supports all existing standards for compressing headers and includes native x64 version. The program is shareware , posting and par2 repair QuickPar replacement features are free. See also List of Usenet newsreaders Comparison of Usenet newsreaders External links http www.usenetexplorer.com UsenetExplorer.com Category Usenet clients Category Shareware network software stub ... more details
The USENET Cookbook was an experiment in electronic publishing conducted by Brian Reid computer scientist Brian Reid in 1985 1987, several years before the World Wide Web Web . Reid distinguishes between electronic printing the production of individual documents and electronic publishing the full process including dissemination . The USENET cookbook was a collaboratively produced cookbook. Recipes were solicited from contributors worldwide. They were heavily copy editing edited for style and content and distributed by email weekly later, they were distributed on the USENET newsgroup alt.gourmand . Recipes were distributed both as plain ASCII text, and markup language marked up in troff , a widely available system on Unix systems. Much of Reid s effort was devoted to the workflow aspects of publication. There were about 300 contributors and 13000 subscribers to its regular updates, and over 400 recipes collected. The recipes were shown copyrighted by the USENET Community Trust with the notice blockquote Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the USENET copyright notice and the title of the newsgroup and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or the original contributor. blockquote The recipes continue to circulate widely today on the Web. References Brian K., Reid, http www.hpl.hp.com techreports Compaq DEC WRL 87 7.html USENET Cookbook An Experiment in Electronic Publication , Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Laboratory now HP Labs Technical Report WRL 87 7, December 1987. External links http web.archive.org web 20070429112607 http ftp.digital.com pub recipes USENET cookbook archives at an ftp.digital.com mirror original gone http groups.google.com group alt.gourmand topics?start 10&sa N alt.gourmand archives at Google Groups Category History of the Internet Category Publishing organizations ... more details
website HipCrime is referred to as a leading Usenet Terrorist by James Farmer, maintainer of http ... clones the future of Usenet? cite web url http www.killfile.org dungeon why hipcrime.html archiveurl ... List of spammers Category Usenet Category Usenet people internet stub ... more details
A Usenet celebrity or Usenet personality is a particular kind of Internet celebrity , being an individual who has gained a certain level of Wiktionary notoriety notoriety from posting on Usenet , a global ..., Usenet newsgroup s have attracted a wide variety of people posting all manner of fact, fiction, theories, opinions, and beliefs. Some Usenet posters have achieved a certain amount of Wiktionary fame fame or infamy and celebrity within Usenet circles because of their unusual, non mainstream ... bizarre posts to various Usenet newsgroups. In particular, he gained international notoriety for his ... sci.astro.amateur msg 06b54621ddd567c6 Usenet posting on the occasion of Professor Alexander Abian ... stopped appearing on Usenet after 1998, although he continued writing essays up to 2003. He died at age ... on the Usenet newsgroup discussion group rec.skiing.alpine , after engaging in a flame war with other .... ref http www.wired.com politics law news 1999 11 32550 Usenet Ban a Slippery Slope? , wired.com , 1999 11 16 ref Serdar Argic alias used in one of the first automated newsgroup spam incidents on Usenet ... benny patrick post.html Archive Valery Fabrikant s home page ref Hipcrime Usenet Hipcrime called a leading Usenet terrorist , this user wrote and distributed software applications that allow users to modify ... groups posting through Google for his abuse of Usenet, ref http groups.google.com groups profile?enc ... eccentric. BIFF B1FF or BIFF well known pseudonym and prototypical newbie on Usenet. Posts usually ... on to Richard Sexton , who posted BIFFisms much more widely. Joel Furr Joel K. Jay Furr Usenet poster ... enemy of Serdar Argic. Furr was also notable on Usenet for his self appointed leadership over the alt ... postings to Usenet science fiction newsgroups. He guarded his true identity carefully for many ... Usenet postings. Internet Oracle The Internet Oracle a.k.a. The Usenet Oracle collective effort ... but thoughtful posts, but achieved Usenet celebrity circa 1991 by writing a small script to grep ... more details
File Plonk.png thumb right 350px Plonk warning Plonk is a Usenet jargon term for adding a particular poster to one s kill file such that the poster s future postings are completely ignored. It was first used in 1989, and by 1994 ref http catb.org esr jargon html P plonk.html ref was a commonly used term on Usenet regarding kill file additions. The word is an example of onomatopoeia , intended to humorously represent the supposed sound ref cite web title The first plonk url http rs79.vrx.net works usenet terms plonk publisher Richard Sexton, VRx date 25 February 2008 accessdate 2008 02 25 ref of the user hitting the bottom of the kill file imagining perhaps the kill file as a bucket . It is also sometimes given as an acronym standing for Please Log Off, Net Kook, though this is likely a backronym . Other used expressions are p ut l amer on k illfile ref http groups.google.com groups?q put lamer on killfile ref and P lease L eave O ur N ewsgroup K illfile It is also used as a verb I plonked that idiot Tom . As a public repudiation of the plonked poster, it is appended to the end of one s reply or may constitute the entire reply . A user might also simply reply to the impugned post with the word Plonk . The term s usage later expanded to include the use of e mail filtering e mail filters that delete incoming messages that meet certain filter criteria set by the receiving user, so block messages from annoying senders. It has also often been figuratively used on Bulletin board system BBSes , online forums webboards , weblog blogs , and wikiwiki wikis which usually do not actually have filters , and is occasionally used in reference to blocking a user on an IM protocol. First known use The http groups.google.com group alt.flame browse thread thread b1e46797b46e0466 c95ebcc28b56e714?lnk st&q 22 plonk 22&rnum 2&hl en c95ebcc28b56e714 first known use was in 1989 by a Richard Sexton ... congregate. Make me. plonk pre See also Internet troll dev null References reflist Category Usenet ... more details
When Usenet and e mail users respond to a message, they often want to include some context for the discussion. This is often accomplished by quoting a portion of the original message using Usenet conventions. In essence the convention is to communicate in plain text format not HTML and quote with at the beginning of each line, for a quote of quote, and so on. Examples Usenet standard quoting refers to the practice of preceding the original message with the or right angle bracket character at the beginning of each line, and then inserting one s responses inline, using no special designator for the author s messages. pre hello, how are you? I am fine pre When a second response is made to the second message, the second message is again quoting with , perhaps causing parts of the original message to now be designated with . Such nested quotations can technically be continued indefinitely, but quickly become cumbersome. pre hello, how are you? I am fine Good, I am also fine. pre Enhanced quoting such as facilitating by the Emacs supercite module , includes more context by using the initials or a short form of the name. The program has to be careful not to quote already quoted material pre first hello, how are you? I am fine. pre pre first hello, how are you? second I am fine. Good, I am also fine. pre It is often the case that it makes sense, particularly in the simple quoting case, to insert a note telling who said what pre Last Saturday, when the sun was nice, Second Guy said Last thursday, while eating popcorn, First Guy said hello, how are you? I am fine Good, I am also fine. pre Canonical quoting There is no standard declaring one way of quoting to be right and others to be wrong , but some standards depend on conventions. The http www.chemie.fu berlin.de outerspace netnews son of 1036.html son of 1036 draft recommends tt > tt as the quote prefix http www.ietf.org rfc ... Internet stub Category Usenet ... more details
Notability date February 2010 Primary sources date February 2010 Infobox software name cg logo screenshot caption author developer released latest release version 0.4 latest release date start date and age 2002 05 13 latest preview version latest preview date programming language operating system Linux , FreeBSD , Mac OS X , NetBSD , OpenBSD , OpenSolaris platform language status genre News client license GNU General Public License website http nih.at cg lowercase title cg is a binary grabbing news client for the command line. It combines available files and shows the user a selection in an editor. It supports mass saving and decoding of multi part attachments encoded in uuencode , yEnc and base64 . cg is free software licensed under the GNU General Public Licence . See also List of news clients External links http nih.at cg cg official homepage Category Free Usenet clients network software stub ... more details
Original research date August 2011 Orphan date September 2010 Usenet , a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system, can be accessed through Web browser s as well as through dedicated news clients. Introduction Usenet newsgroups are traditionally accessed by a newsreaderUsenetnewsreader . 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. Setup and access The browser interface offered by Web based Usenet providers is typically known as a Usenet browser. All of the content 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. It is as easy as navigating through a browser to the provider s Web site. Web based Usenet is especially useful for those who have access to the internet but do not have, or do not know how to set up, a traditional newsreaderUsenetnewsreader . Web based popularity Google Groups is the most popular and by far the largest Web based Usenet archive, Citation needed date August 2011 with terabytes of archived content, consisting of over 700 million posts dating from as early as 1981. ref Cite web url http www.readwriteweb.com archives google fixes usenet archive old geeks rejoice.php title news Google Fixes Usenet Archive Old Geeks Rejoice ref Many other websites have started offering access to newsgroups through a Web browser. References Reflist 1 Category Usenet Category Usenet clients Category Usenet free posting ... more details
refimprove date February 2011 No footnotes date February 2011 There are several different types of NewsreaderUsenetnewsreader s, depending on the type of service the user needs whether intended primarily for discussion or for downloading files posted to the alt.binaries hierarchy. Although Usenet originally started as a message board without any file attachment ability, many Usenet users today do not participate in NNTP discussion groups, as was common during the 1980s and 1990s before the emergence of website forums, and only use Newsgroups for downloading files such as music, movies, software ... of their choice, when it is done regularly the process is not time consuming if the newsreader ... to be the most difficult to learn. example Usenet Explorer Graphical Proprietary software Commercial ... XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 Turnpike software Turnpike Unison Usenet client Unison for Mac OS X Usenet Explorer Freeware 40tude Dialog GrabIt Dubious crippleware GrabIt as freeware date June 2011 IBM Web Explorer Opera Mail Xnews Shareware Unison Usenet client Unison Mac OS X Free software Free ... Mail Groundhog newsreader Groundhog for Android KLibido KNode may be embedded in Kontact MicroPlanet Gravity Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups discontinued, renamed to SeaMonkey Mozilla Thunderbird Pan newsreader Pan SABnzbd SeaMonkey SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups Spotnet Sylpheed XPN newsreader XPN Text based Agora web browser Agora email server, discontinued Alpine e mail client Alpine cg newsreader cg Gnus Emacs based Line Mode Browser Lynx web browser Lynx has limited Usenet support Mutt e mail client Mutt nn newsreader nn Pine e mail client Pine rn newsreader rn Slrn tin newsreader tin Wanderlust software wanderlust Emacs based Web based Gmane Google Groups See also Portal Internet Comparison of Usenet newsreaders External links dmoz Computers Software Internet Clients UsenetUsenet clients http www.macorchard.com usenet Macintosh Newsreaders at The Mac Orchard Category Usenet clients Usenet ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 This is a Comparison of NewsreaderUsenetUsenet Newsreaders . Please ... downloading Free with Usenet Service cg newsreader cg Text based Binary Grabber Yes No No No No No No No Free ... Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No Yes No Free Unix like BSD licenses BSD Free Software Unison Usenet ... License Other AutoImport NZB Arachne software Arachne GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Free DOS ... Includes 3 month newsgroup service trial Shareware Gemini mail news GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No No Yes ... Qt Gnus Text based Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No No Yes Yes No Free Cross platform GPL ... Microsoft Windows Proprietary Usenet Search Service KLibido GUI Binary Grabber Yes No Yes No No No Free Unix like GPL KDE KNode GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Free Unix like GPL KDE Lotus Notes GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Varies Microsoft Windows , Unix like , Mac OS X Proprietary Name ... Other AutoImport NZB Lynx web browser Lynx Text based Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Yes Yes Free Cross platform GPL Limited USENET support MicroPlanet Gravity GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Free Microsoft Windows BSD licenses BSD rh2 Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes ... SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Thunderbird GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No No Yes Yes ... Microsoft Windows Proprietary Freeware Novell GroupWise GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Varies Microsoft Windows , Unix like Proprietary Opera Mail GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No Yes ... Newsreader Yes No No No No Yes Yes Microsoft Windows Proprietary Part of Microsoft Windows up to Windows XP XP Pan newsreader Pan GUI Combination Yes No Yes No Yes No Free Unix like , Microsoft ... Platform License Other AutoImport NZB SeaMonkey Seamonkey Mail & Newsgroups GUI Traditional Newsreader ... Yes Yes Free Microsoft Windows GPL slrn Text based computing text based Traditional Newsreader Yes Yes ... extensible using S Lang programming language S Lang scripts macros Sylpheed GUI Traditional Newsreader ... more details
Infobox Software name XPN logo Image Xpn0.png 75px XPN icon screenshot Image XPN main large.png 250px caption XPN 0.5.7 running on Linux developer http nem01.altervista.org Antonio Caputo latest release version 1.2.6 ref cite web url http xpn.altervista.org codice ChangeLog title ChangeLog accessdate 2010 08 19 ref latest release date release date and age 2009 01 02 operating system multiplatform genre News client license GPL website http xpn.altervista.org index en.html xpn.altervista.org XPN X Python Newsreader is a news client written in Python programming language Python and based on the GTK library. Features It offers a good MIME support, scoring system, filtered views, random tag lines, external editor support, one key navigation, ROT13 , Face and X Face headers decoding, spoiler char and many more. XPN is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL licence. Thanks to Python programming language Python and GTK it is completely multiplatform . It should work wherever Python and GTK work. A binary Microsoft Windows Windows version is also provided. XPN is available in English, Italian, French and German. ScreenShots Image XPN main large.png thumb none 300px XPN running on Linux Image XPN main win large.png thumb none 300px XPN running on Windows See also List of news clients References Reflist External links http xpn.altervista.org index en.html XPN s official homepage http sf.net projects xpn Project s page on Sourceforge Category Free Usenet clients Category Usenet clients Category Free software programmed in Python it XPN newsreader ... more details
Chris Lewis is a Canada Canadian expert on Usenet and Spam electronic spam . He is perhaps best known for his work in writing and running auto cancelers for newsgroup spam, and his help in implementing and avoiding the need for Usenet Death Penalty UDPs . He is employed by Nortel Nortel BNR and helps maintain the Ottawa Carleton Unix Users Group Ocunix http www.ocuug.on.ca . External links http news.com.com 2009 1023 864815.html Spam flood forces companies to take desperate measures Stefanie Olsen, March 21, 2002 http www.uni giessen.de faq archiv usenet.site setup msg00000.html How to become a Usenet site Chris Lewis, 27 Oct 2002 http wiki.killfile.org projects usenet faqs spam Chris Lewis Spam Thresholds FAQ Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Lewis, Chris ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Lewis, Chris Category Nortel employees Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people Category Usenet people compu bio stub Internet stub ... more details
Infobox software name Unison logo Deleted image removed image Unison.png 48px screenshot Deleted image removed Image Unison screenshot.png 250px caption Unison developer Panic company Panic latest release version 2.1.5 latest release date July 6, 2011 operating system Mac OS X genre Usenet client license Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.panic.com unison Panic.com unison Context date October 2009 Advert date January 2008 Unison is a commercial Mac OS X client for Usenet , developed by Panic company Panic Software . It supports binary downloading including NZB support , group browsing and segmenting and error checking utilities. Unison won the Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X User experience in 2004 , as well as being a runner up in the Best product category. ref cite web title Apple Design Awards 2004 WayBackMachine cache url http developer.apple.com wwdc ada 2004winners.html archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20040703061035 http developer.apple.com wwdc ada 2004winners.html archivedate 2004 07 03 ref See also Panic company Panic Software List of Usenet newsreaders Comparison of Usenet newsreaders External links http www.panic.com unison Unison website http www.panic.com Panic website References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Unison Usenet Client Category Mac OS X only software Category Usenet clients Category Panic software Category Apple Design Award winners mac software stub network software stub pt Unison programa ... more details
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