Windows newsreaders

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I hope you will try Giganews for your news subscription -- especially by January 17, 2010!

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NewsRover: for discussion groups and binaries!
See also

• utilities page. (binary applications -- for viewing/posting to picture/audio/etc groups are there)
  

Newsgroups: (for discussing Windows newsreaders):

• newsreaders.nntp.software.clients.win newsgroup (part of NewsReaders.com nntp/web forums)
• news.software.readers newsgroup
  
• comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.news newsgroup

Windows Newsreaders:

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• 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 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.

• Agent user's mailing list (click on that link or send a message to agent-users@jhc.org.uk with subject "*subscribe")
• another mailing list
• alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent newsgroup
• alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified newsgroup
• Agent Links and Utilities
• Agent Tools by jonzonk
• Forte Agent filter import/export utility by Murray Peterson (direct download link)

AllNews: by Mike Read. Newsreader for Win3.1, Win95, and WinNT.

Alpine is the replacement to PINE.

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)

Becky! version 2 beta mail program supports news with the BkNews Plugin

Dialog by 40tude, an offline newsreader (frequently described as an "Agent Clone" due to look), includes scripting ability.

Gemini is the multi-platform version of Messenger Pro by intellegit.

GNUS mail and newsreader for EMACS.

Gravity. MicroPlanet Gravity (originally shareware) is an open source, on-line/off-line reader using PCREs, scoring, rules and filters. SourceForge development (SF Project "mpgravity") development is active and there are numerous fixes and additions to the original 2004 open-source version. Newer SourceForge versions are compiled for newer Windows operating systems and can be installed as a multi-user application.

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.

Mozilla Group newsreaders:

• Sea Monkey internet suite
• Thunderbird from the Mozilla group does mail and news.
• Netscape Unofficial FAQ covers both of the above

MR/2 ICE: news and mail client for Windows or OS/2.

MyNews (sourceforge)

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.




• 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.
  • How to use newsgroups in Opera
  • Opera-users mailing list.
  • Opera newsgroups
  • opera.mail+news newsgroup
  
  
• Outlook Express by Microsoft does news and e-mail.
  • 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.")
  • Wishlist for OE6 from microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.outlookexpress.wishlist newsgroup
  • Inside Outlook Express 5
  • Outlook Express User Tips Home Page
  • OE-QuoteFix utility program that improves the way Outlook Express handles quoting (primarily fixing the OE's bad wrapping of quoted text).
  • FidoLook modifies the way OE works to make it work better with Fido systems, also improves quoting.
  • books
  • Newsgroups
    • microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.outlookexpress.wishlist newsgroup
    • msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress newsgroup
    • msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress newsgroup
    • msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress newsgroup
  • OE for Win 3.1
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Pan: a Linux/Windows newsreader that uses GNOME.
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• PNNTP: perl based newsreader by Mats Peterson
  
  
• Snews: by Dan Fandrich. A OS/2, Windows and DOS newsreader.
  
  
• SLRN: available for OS/2, unix and Windows.
  
  
  
• TLNews: Windows newsreader by Tech Logic. Binaries and text.
  
  
• Turnpike: Windows mail and news reader
  
  
• 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 discussion forum via news or web interface.
  • Xnews information by Q
  • Xnews and SSL - Setting up Xnews to use a secure (SSL) connection
    • example setup for Xnews and SSL
  • DC's Custom Xnews Icons
  • Xnews "XP" Icon Patcher Files
  • 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."
  • David B's Xnews Help Pages
  • Xnews filter sorting and compacting utility by Murray Peterson and Sample Xnews filter file (score.ini) for dealing with binary group spam
• 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.
  • XPN discussion forum (via news or web)
  
  
  
• YARN: a text mode only newsreader for DOS, Win95, OS/2.
  
  OS/2:
  • BlackMail: an OS/2 offline QWK/SOUP database reader.
    
    
  • bnr: an OS/2 binary newsreader by REM Publications.
    
    
  • EmTec News: OS/2 newsreader by EmTec.
    
    
  • IBM Newsreader/2: available at hobbes and mirror's.
    
    
  • LA Times: OS/2 newsreader by Steve Gutz.
    
    
  • MR/2 ICE: news and mail client for OS/2. There is also a text mode version which does QWK.
    
    
  • Newsbeat for OS/2: threaded OS/2 newsreader.
    
    
  • PINE OS/2 port by Nicholas Sheppard
    
    
  • PMINews by Stardock for OS/2.
    
    
  • ProNews/2: by Panecasoft (no longer officially supported).
    
    
  • SLRN: available for OS/2, unix and Windows.
    
    
  • Snews: by Dan Fandrich. A OS/2, Windows and DOS newsreader.
    
    
  • YARN: a text mode only newsreader for DOS, Win95, OS/2.
  
  DOS:
  • Net-Tamer: a DOS (XT's and up) web browser that allows offline reading. Also runs on the PalmTop.
    • Has it's own newsgroup: alt.comp.shareware.nettamer
    
    
  • NewsWerthy: DOS offline line SOUP newsreader by William Werth.
    
    
  • NOS-BOX: DOS mail/news reader.
    
    
  • rnr: byRussell Schulz. DOS uucp/waffle newsreader
    
    
  • Snews: by Dan Fandrich. A OS/2, Windows and DOS newsreader.
    
    
  • Trumpet: Windows/DOS newsreader (has a link to forthcoming features - as of May 1995).
    
    
  • YARN: a text mode only newsreader for DOS, Win95, OS/2.
  
  Non-English Newsreaders:
  
  [Chinese]
  • CNews for Chinese Big5
    
    [German]
    
    
  • 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.
    • OpenXP Crosspoint Projekt Homepage
    • XP2
    
    [Japanese]
    
    
  • Datula: by AONO Yuhei (English version forthcoming).
    
    
  • EdMax: by PemSoft.
    
    
  • Sweet16: by AyanoAkira.
    
    
  
  Utilities:
  • DMod: for moderating a newsgroup (Win95/NT).
  
  

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