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Gnus, is an email and news client, and feed reader for GNU Emacs. 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.
Newsgroups – a list of one or more newsgroups where the article is intended to appear; Distribution – (optional) a supplement to Newsgroups, used to restrict circulation of articles. Date – the time when the article was created; Path – a list of the servers an article passed through on its way to the local server
The collection of Usenet servers has thus a certain peer-to-peer character in that they share resources by exchanging them, the granularity of exchange however is on a different scale than a modern peer-to-peer system and this characteristic excludes the actual users of the system who connect to the news servers with a typical client-server ...
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. Every host of a news server maintains agreements with other nearby news servers to synchronize regularly. In this way news servers form a redundant network. When ...
alt.config — creation of new newsgroups in the alt.* hierarchy. alt.sex — the first alt.* newsgroup for discussion of sexual topics. alt.sex.stories — text-based erotic stories of all types. alt.suicide.holiday — pro-choice discussion of suicide. alt.tv.simpsons — discusses the TV show The Simpsons.
Free Cross-platform: Proprietary: Part of Opera, up to version 12.17 Outlook Express: GUI: Traditional newsreader Yes No No No No Yes Yes Windows: Proprietary: Part of Windows, up to Windows Server 2003: Pan: GUI: Combination Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Free Unix-like, Windows: GPL: Gtk+ SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups GUI: Traditional newsreader Yes No ...
The browser interface offered by Web-based Usenet providers is typically known as a Usenet browser. When binary content is supported, it is already compiled and ready for viewing. Normally, they will have a thumbnail format for their images and videos to make browsing much faster and simpler. Typically, there is no setup for Web-based Usenet.
Pan is a news client for multiple operating systems, developed by Charles Kerr and others. It supports offline reading, multiple servers, multiple connections, fast (indexed) article header filtering and mass saving of multi-part attachments encoded in uuencode, yEnc and base64; images in common formats can be viewed inline.