Active.dis by Greg Lorriman will download a full group list, displaying number of messages. You can then add a group to your default reader.
AntiFirewall by iNetPrivacy Software. Used to get around Firewalls that block NNTP (port 119) traffic.
ELK News by ATOZED Software Add offline reading & SSL support to any newsreader, plus many more features to make reading newsgroups easier and quicker!
NewsPlex
by Adam Mirowski "is a news-server multiplexer. It allows to access
several news-servers simultaneously from any news-reader as if they
were a single server, and to take articles for each group from many
servers at once. NewsPlex can be seamlessly inserted between your
existing news-server and your news-reader, without disturbing the list
of groups or the article numbers. NewsPlex does not retrieve articles
before you request them. It only creates local indexes and redirects
article retrieval as necessary. NewsPlex always uses the best server
for requesting an article, among those having it. It will use the
remaining servers if the best one could not deliver the article.
Servers are rated dynamically according to speed, latency and
availability. NewsPlex can also be used to quickly explore lists of
candidate news-servers and to evaluate their service value." Discussion group at Yahoo Groups.
NewsSpy "NewsSpy's task is to monitor messages posted in a newsgroup and inform you when someone replies to a certain message."
nfilter by Mark Burkley "is a supplemental filtering program to your existing newsreader." Even if your newsreader has filters, this looks more powerful, and can filter on more criteria. It operates by acting as a news proxy between your client and the server -- i.e. you enter your news server in nfilter, and tell your newsreader that your news server is "localhost". People can trade nfilter.dat files to combat problems common to the groups they are in.
BigFilePoster by TechSono "will chop it up into parts small enough for newsgroups, encode the parts, and then post them."
Lightning from Firehand Technologies Corporation. "
Use Lightning to bundle your photo sets together with background imagery, audio annotations, freeform captions, embedded previews, searchable keywords, a title page, and other display elements. The resulting single-file photo collections can be indexed using Lightning's proof sheet generator, converted into photo gallery websites using Lightning's HTML generator, and automatically posted to Internet newsgroups using Lightning's powerful USENET posting module."
Binary Downloading/Viewing Utilities: (see the newsfeeds page for subscription-based full or binary-only newsfeeds)
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UsenetGrab! by EastBay Technologies can download and decode all
binary file types. The program decodes and executes multipart messages, while automatically providing image
previews. For advanced users, search options are available to scan an entire server listing for subject topics, or
specific group names.
NewsBin "Newsreader optimized soley for downloading binaries. Automatically downloads and decodes single and multi-part posts across multiple servers. Allows up to 8 simultaneous connections. Has extensive search and filter capabilities and a simple posting interface. Displays thumbnail images of .jpg files. New 4.0 version supports yEnc encoding, per group filtering, and allows setting per server connection and MB download limits."
NewsBinarium by microOLAP "can easily find and download to your disc images, music, films, games, programs and other files from USENET. User-friendly interface, almost the same as the world-wide known Microsoft Windows interface, enables you to get any file you need just in few minutes after having downloaded NewsBinarium...NewsBinarium allows you to sort your files according to the date of a message, sender, size and the subject of the message, news groups and servers they're received from. You can delete, move and copy files from a NewsBinarium window to an open Window folder.
Using Gallery object you can view and sort out all the files received." Supports multiple servers and scheduling.
Pluckit for pictures and other binaries and Pluckit Multimedia Studio for music. "All you have to do is tell Pluckit which groups you are interested in and then click the 'Start Plucking' button."
All Thumbs by shiftHEAD softWARE, "automatically scan Web Sites, Newsgroups and Gnutella for image, music, and other file types, all through one easy to use Browser-based application."
APicViewer for binaries.
WMH Software, is a binary downloader with anti-spam features.
Binary News Assistant monitors, selects, downloads, and decodes binary newsgroup articles. It has an easy to use interface
with many features like filters, the ability to flag articles, decode all articles into their binary equivalents either as they are retrieved or all at
once from the news server , the ability to ignore articles and more!
B-News by Luc Van der Veken uses base-224 encoding to reduce
the overhead of uploads/downloads to just 2.5 percent.
BNR (Short for "Binary News Reader") by Patrick Aalto. "Designed for rapid binary downloading. Among the feature highlights are: Automatic multi-part article combining and completeness checking. Support for multiple news servers simultaneously. Header download optimization. Article download optimization. Connect-on-demand. Checking for file existence before you start downloading an article. Finding an index file to decide whether to download an image. Plugin support. Caching of article headers. Internal JPEG viewer. Multiple Document Interface. Newsgroup-specific settings. Customizable interface."
BinaryVortex is for pictures only. By the author of SBNews: News Robot (see below).
Diiva is a picture only newsreader. For a small monthly fee, you can get previews of images from their preview servers.
FotoVac is a binary grabber and image viewer by the makers of ACD See.
GigaNews by Uwe Keller. "GigaNews has an integrated browser with the capability to display all common filetypes and even movies!"
GuyReader is a utility designed to aid downloading binaries from the NewsGuy server by using HTTP for the downloading connection (cutting the bandwidth requirements by approximately 25%).
Kaufman Binny by Kaufman (same Kaufman as in Kaufman Mail Warrior)
LeechGuy is an application that allows you to download binary articles from usenet using NewsGuy's proprietary Direct Read News (DRN) interface or Easynews usenet2web interface. Both systems enable you to read and post articles to your favorite newsgroups using a webbrowser instead of a regular newsreader.
MP3ĘGrouppie by Napa Software "Just enter the name of your news server and then select from the list of available MP3 related newsgroups. MP3ĘGrouppie will get a list of the articles in the newsgroup, then summarize and display the availability of the included MP3 files."
NewsGrabber supports multiple servers (even for multipart articles across different servers; in program image, video, and sound viewing; powerful automation, powerful filtering, and early duplicate detection to prevent downloading files more than once.
NewsGreed by Leonardo Ferracci. A small (60k) java binary downloader.
NewsGrub by Lance Zeliph is a binary extractor for USENET - handles single, multiple and
split part posts. Includes Online Reader and News Server scanner. See also NewsGrub Assistant at that site, which is a multimedia file manager/ launcher.
News Harvest by KRT Pty, Ltd. (available for OS/2, Win9x, and Win2000).
NewsLeecher "Download binaries from the usenet with ease.
NewsLeecher has advanced multi-server support
and features a lightning fast group cache"
NewsReactor by DaanSytems "is a tool to download binaries from usenet newsgroups. NewsReactor scans, combines and downloads files from a selected newsgroup."
News Scanner is a program designed to parse the newsgroups of a specified news server and download the file
attachments.
NewZMiner "Up to 32 news servers simultaneously and up to 10 connections to each server. Combine multipart messages accross multiple servers resulting in minimum incomplete files. Manual and auto download modes. Filtering files by extension and size."
Nomad News a newsgroup browser (pictures, sounds) by DMP Software.
PixMachine2000 by TechSono includes a newsgroup binary downloader and a viewer. Their PixTV product is designed for just newsgroup binary downloading and viewing, and geared more towards novices.
QuadSucker/News downloads content from newsgroups to your computer. QuadSucker/News is optimized for images,
such as Jpeg and Gif files. Unattended operation is supported, allowing newsgroups to be downloaded automatically
without user intervention.
SBNews: News Robot by SB Software is for automated downloading of information from binary newsgroups. Many special
features including special Anti-Spam features and fully automatic unattended operation. Works with all types of
binary files, including images (jpeg/gif/bmp), archives, movies, sound files, etc.
TIFNY. Latest version supports
up to six streams simultaneously!
UsenetGrab! by EastBay Technologies can download and decode all
binary file types. The program decodes and executes multipart messages, while automatically providing image
previews. For advanced users, search options are available to scan an entire server listing for subject topics, or
specific group names.
VASTnews by TechSono "The newsgroup downloader specially designed
to handle today's gigantic newsgroups and
gigantic RAR, AVI, and MPG files."
