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Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source [1] cross-platform email client, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Pan a full-featured text and binary NNTP and Usenet client for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and Windows. SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups; Sylpheed; X Python Newsreader
Free Windows: Proprietary: Windows Mail: GUI: Traditional newsreader Yes Yes Windows: Proprietary: Part of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008; Windows 10 omits newsgroup and Usenet support [2] [better source needed] Xnews: GUI: Combination Yes No No (Can create NBZs) No Free Windows: Proprietary: XPN: GUI: Traditional newsreader Yes No No ...
Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new articles. [2] In addition to text-based articles, Usenet is also used to distribute binary files, generally in dedicated "binaries" newsgroups.
In addition, Google’s Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server and associated peering will no longer be available, meaning Google will not support serving new Usenet content or exchanging content with other NNTP servers. This change will not impact any non-Usenet content on Google Groups, including all user and organization-created groups.
Newsgroup servers are hosted by various organizations and institutions. Most Internet service providers host their own news servers , or rent access to one, for their subscribers. There are also a number of companies who sell access to premium news servers.
This is the most extensive newsgroup hierarchy outside of the Big 8. Examples include: alt.atheism — discusses atheism; alt.binaries.slack — artwork created by and for the Church of the SubGenius. alt.config — creation of new newsgroups in the alt.* hierarchy. alt.sex — the first alt.* newsgroup for discussion of sexual topics.
Leafnode is a store-and-forward NNTP (or Usenet) proxy server designed for small sites with just a few active newsgroups, but very easy to set up and maintain, when compared to INN. Originally created by Arnt Gulbrandsen [4] in 1995 while he was working at Trolltech, it is currently maintained by Matthias Andree and Ralf Wildenhues.
Xnews is a freeware Usenet newsreader created by Luu Tran. [1] It is written in Delphi, and it is 100% GNKSA 2.0 compliant. Some of its features were inspired by the program NewsXpress.