Barca from Poco Systems (makes of PocoMail) is a news and mail client, as well as a PIM (Calendar, Tasks, Planner, Notes, Diary, Contacts, Junk Mail filter and more)
NewsRover (version 10.0 just released Sep. 04!) by S&H Computer Systems handles regular and binary newsgroups. Has a password protection feature.
NNTP for Outlook by MAPILab "allows you to read and post messages to newsgroups from Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002/XP and 2003. This product is a full-function MAPI transport. This means that a news server account works in the same way as an account for Microsoft Exchange Server or a POP3/SMTP account, support remote mail headers and it is managed through common Send/Receive menu.MAPILab NNTP for Outlook supports all messages formats (plain text, RTF, HTML) and encodings which are supported by Microsoft Outlook. It is fully compatible with (but doesn't require!) Microsoft Exchange Server and can be used to share newsgroups for coworkers through public folders." Use coupon code MAPI-G8UR-EGRF for a 10% discount.
Also try:
Agent: by Forte, Inc does news and mail. (FreeAgent does news)
Agent user's mailing list (click on that link or send a message to agent-users@jhc.org.uk with subject "*subscribe")
AllNews: by Mike Read. Newsreader for Win3.1, Win95, and WinNT.
Barca from Poco Systems (makes of PocoMail) is a news and mail client, as well as a PIM (Calendar, Tasks, Planner, Notes, Diary, Contacts, Junk Mail filter and more)
Gravity by Microplanet, Inc. (version 2.5 and up) is now freeware
Tom's Gravity Pages: An Unofficial User's Site (Gravity is no longer officially being developed, but one of the programers unofficially "leaks" upgrades to Tom, see his Super Gravity Pages for the latest version).
GroupsAloud by NextUp "the worlds first talking Usenet News Reader" (also posts). Or try TextAloud MP3 which "is the exciting new program that converts any text into spoken words and MP3 files. It resides in your Windows tray, always ready to read aloud your text from email, web pages, and documents. You can listen immediately, or save to .wav or MP3 files to hear later at your convenience."
Lurker 32 for Win 95/98/2000 is an offline newsreader with the added feature of making a searchable database of downloaded articles so you can have a local tech support / reference tool for groups.
Mahogany by Karsten Ballüder and the M-Team is an OpenSource cross-platform mail and news client. It is available for X11/Unix and MS Windows platforms, supporting a wide range of protocols and standards, including POP3, IMAP and full MIME support.
MesNews: for all version of Windows (95, 98, NT, on 2000 and XP). Supports multiple servers, Xfaces, and binary decoding.
Netscape puts a newsreader in some versions of their software. (latest version doesn't have one, I don't believe)
FixNews by Desiderata Software "works in conjunction with the newsreader, and provides the ability to "killfile", i.e. to filter articles based upon the subject and/or author.Ê Wildcard support is included."
NewsMan Pro by Daniel Cumpian is a "Usenet newsreader for Windows 2000/XP. Supports text and binary groups with Yenc, UUE and Mime decoding. Handles multiple servers seamlessly as well as importing Newszbin (NZB) files."
NewsPro: by Alexander Birj. A Win95/Win98/WinNT newsreader with strong multiserver support.
NewsRover by S&H Computer Systems handles regular and binary newsgroups. Win 95/98/NT. Has a password protection feature.
News XPress by Ng Wang Lui ("Ken"): 1.04b for Win3.1 or 2.01 for Win95. And a manual: by Brian Smither.
RunNews by Myles J.G. Edmonds allows MS Internet Explorer to run News Xpress.
NNTP for Outlook by MAPILab "allows you to read and post messages to newsgroups from Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002/XP and 2003. This product is a full-function MAPI transport. This means that a news server account works in the same way as an account for Microsoft Exchange Server or a POP3/SMTP account, support remote mail headers and it is managed through common Send/Receive menu.MAPILab NNTP for Outlook supports all messages formats (plain text, RTF, HTML) and encodings which are supported by Microsoft Outlook. It is fully compatible with (but doesn't require!) Microsoft Exchange Server and can be used to share newsgroups for coworkers through public folders." Use coupon code MAPI-G8UR-EGRF for a 10% discount.
Noworyta News Reader:an online and offline newsreader by Filip Noworyta. Local mirror for downloading version 2.9 of the program.
NwReader: a Windows NT online newsreader by Stefan Reck.
Opera browser is not onlya great alternative to Netscape or Internet Explorer for browsing, but italso includes a newsreader and mail client.
Cumulative Security Update in Outlook Express from Microsoft (dated June 24, 2005). See Yahoo news story ("According to Microsoft, Outlook Express has a bug in its NNTP parsing function that hackers can exploit by creating a news server loaded with malicious code.")
Ozum by OzInsight "the All-In-One newsreader, has been optimized for multimedia content and is aimed at the Usenet service users who regularly access multimedia objects like sound, video and image files. Ozum's multimedia sampling allows users to make informed decisions on whether they want the multimedia object(s) or not before they download it.It is the only newsreader that allows you to view or listen to individual parts of multipart audio/video files (mpg/mpeg, avi, asf, rm, mp3, wav; and more being added soon) without having to download and assemble the whole file.It automatically downloads, assembles and decodes binary files and rejects duplicates."
Pimmy by Geminisoft does mail and news. Also can chat with Pimmy users on the same LAN. " Pimmy is less then 400K and the program consists in only one executable file. The program itself and all the documentation in HTLM format are contained in a compressed .zip file less than 200K. Pimmy has been written using C++ language with no external libraries, so it is very fast and small. Pimmy takes advantage of multithreading (more tasks of the same process executed at the "same" time) so many operations are faster. In addition all operations do not "block" the user interface, so the user can always stop Pimmy."
QwkNews v2.2: NNTP to BBS converter/reader for Win 95.
Re: News is a newsreader with powerful searching capabilities. You can now search the complete text of every article from all newsgroups from today back to 1995, quickly and efficiently. Finding relevant newsgroup articles is now as easy as typing in your search terms and within seconds you get a list of the articles that best match what you're looking for.
Snews: by Dan Fandrich. A OS/2, Windows and DOS newsreader.
Virtual Access: does mail and news (will also read compuserve groups). Available for Win3.x,Win95,WinNT.
WinQVT/Net: NNTP to BBS converter/reader for Win 95.
WinVN: by a bunch of people hasn't "officially" been developed for years, but some development has been made by 3rd parties, I suggest looking at the current version by Mark Spankus.
XanaNews: by Colin Wilson is a free (source included), online and offline newsreader.
Xnews: by Luu Tran is a free newsreader for win9x with a NewsXpress like interface, score file, filtering, binary handling, and other features.
Xnews Menu-Reference "This reference addresses new Xnews users who at first want to look up the meaning of single menu items before diving into the depth of the Xnews manual."
XPN: a Python based newsreader with unicode support, scoring, muting of quoted text, newsrc import/export, find article and search in the body, andspoiler char (form feed) support. A binary for Windows is available for download.
CrossPoint (XP) Original version by Peter Mandrella, who ceased development and published the source code at the end of 1999. CrossPoint is an offline reader for DOS from Germany that has also english resource files, so that it is possible for international users to use it without difficulties. Furthermore it's being developed by several development teams. CrossPoint always needs a client/converter for different types of access: BBS (Fido, QWK and some other german-based systems) and internet access with SMTP, POP3 and NNTP. These clients come either for DOS (UKA_PPP, UKAD), Win9x (UKAW, XPNews, VSOUP and others), OS/2 or Linux. CrossPoint in its further developed versions (see below) is MIME-aware and - depending on the version - interprets a lot of different charsets (even UTF-7/8).
FreeXP, maintained by Michael Heydekamp, is likely the most used CrossPoint derivative and is still actively developed. Supports POP, SMTP, and NNTP.
NewsRover (version 10.0 just released Sep. 04!) by S&H Computer Systems handles regular and binary newsgroups. Has a password protection feature.
