Usenet Usenet (), a portmanteau of User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP, Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Elli ...

is a worldwide, distributed discussion system that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called

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are used to read and post messages (called ''articles'' or ''posts'', and collectively termed ''news'') to one or more

newsgroups A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are not only discussion groups or conversations, but also a repository to publish articles, start ...

. Users must have access to a

news server A news server is a collection of software used to handle Usenet articles. It may also refer to a computer itself which is primarily or solely used for handling Usenet. Access to Usenet is only available through news server providers. Articles an ...

to use a newsreader. This is a list of such newsreaders.

Types of clients

* Text newsreader – designed primarily for reading/posting text posts; unable to download binary attachments * Traditional newsreader – a newsreader with text support that can also handle binary attachments, though sometimes less efficiently than more specialized clients * Binary grabber/plucker – designed specifically for easy and efficient downloading of multi-part binary post attachments; limited or nonexistent reading/posting ability. These generally offer multi- server and multi-connection support. Most now support NZBs, and several either support or plan to support automatic Par2 processing. Some additionally support video and audio streaming. * NZB downloader – binary grabber client without header support – cannot browse groups or read/post text messages; can only load 3rd-party NZBs to download binary post attachments. Some incorporate an interface for accessing selected NZB search websites. * Binary posting client – designed specifically and exclusively for posting multi-part binary files * Combination client – Jack-of-all-trades supporting text reading/posting, as well as multi-segment binary downloading and automatic Par2 processing *Web-Based Client - Client designed for access through a web browser and does not require any additional software to access Usenet.

Active

Commercial software

* BinTube * Forté Agent * NewsBin * NewsLeecher * Novell GroupWise *

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* Turnpike * Usenet Explorer

Freeware

* GrabIt

Free/Open-source software

Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free and open-source, C_(programming_language), C/GTK-based e-mail client, which is both lightweight and highly configurable. Claws Mail runs on both Microsoft Windows, Windows and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, and Solaris ...

is a GTK+-based email and news client for

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

BSD The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix or BSD Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, beginni ...

, Solaris, and

Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...

. * GNOME Evolution * Gnus, is an email and news client, and feed reader for

GNU Emacs GNU Emacs is a text editor and suite of free software tools. Its development began in 1984 by GNU Project founder Richard Stallman, based on the Emacs editor developed for Unix operating systems. GNU Emacs has been a central component of the GNU ...

. *

Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source email client that also functions as a personal information manager with a Digital calendar, calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix (protocol), Matrix), ...

is a

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cross-platform Within computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several Computing platform, computing platforms. Some ...

email client An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functio ...

news client A newsreader is a software application that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups. Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new ...

, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. * Pan a full-featured text and binary NNTP and Usenet client for

FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD, one of the first fully functional and free Unix clones on affordable ...

NetBSD NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant officially released after 386BSD was fork (software development), forked. It continues to ...

OpenBSD OpenBSD is a security-focused operating system, security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD in 1995 by fork (software development), forking NetBSD ...

OpenSolaris OpenSolaris () is a discontinued open-source computer operating system for SPARC and x86 based systems, created by Sun Microsystems and based on Solaris. Its development began in the mid 2000s and ended in 2010. OpenSolaris was developed as ...

, and

. * SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups * Sylpheed * X Python Newsreader

Text-based

* Alpine * Gnus (

Emacs Emacs (), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, s ...

based) * Line Mode Browser *

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(has limited Usenet support) * Mutt (3rd party patches) * rn *

Slrn slrn is a Console application, console-based news client for multiple operating systems, developed by John E. Davis and others. It was originally developed in 1994 for Unix-like operating systems and OpenVMS, VMS, and now also supports Microsoft ...

* tin

Web-based

* Easynews * Narkive * Nemo * Newsgrouper * novaBBS See Web-based Usenet for details.

Discontinued

Commercial software

* Lotus Notes * Netscape Communicator (superseded by Mozilla) * Windows Mail – replaced Outlook Express for Windows Vista – terminated by Windows 7 * Windows Live Mail – replaced Outlook Express for Windows XP; optional for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7

Freeware

* Opera Mail * Xnews – MS Windows * MT NewsWatcher – Mac OS X Universal Binary

Free/Open Source

* Arachne (with aranews.apm package) *

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* Argo * Beonex Communicator * KNode (may be embedded in Kontact) * Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups (renamed to SeaMonkey) * Spotnet

Shareware

Unison Unison (stylised as UNISON) is a Great Britain, British trade union. Along with Unite the Union, Unite, Unison is one of the two largest trade unions in the United Kingdom, with over 1.2 million members who work predominantly in public servic ...

– Mac OS X

Text-based

Agora The agora (; , romanized: ', meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Ancient Greece, Greek polis, city-states. The literal meaning of the word "agora" is "gathering place" or "assembly". The agora was the center ...

(email server) *

Pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. ''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...

Types of clients

Active

Commercial software

Freeware

Free/Open-source software

Text-based

Web-based

Discontinued

Commercial software

Freeware

Free/Open Source

Shareware

Text-based

Web-based

See also

References

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