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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 Cross-platform: GPL–LGPL: Gtk+ tin: text-based: Traditional newsreader Yes No No No Yes Yes Free Unix-like: BSD: Free software: Unison: GUI: Combination Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes (audio only) Free macOS: Proprietary: Development ceased; free, unsupported Usenet Explorer: GUI: Combination Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ( 1500 days / $23.34/yr ...
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.
The news admin (the administrator of a news server) decides how long posts are kept on their server before being expired (deleted), which is called retention. Different servers will have different retention times for the same newsgroup; some may keep posts for as little as one or two weeks, others may hold them for many years.
A news server is one of the most difficult Internet services to administer because of the large amount of data involved, small customer base (compared to mainstream Internet service), and a disproportionately high volume of customer support incidents (frequently complaining of missing news articles).
The original seven hierarchies were comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*.They were open and free for anyone to participate in (except for the moderated newsgroups), though they were subject to a few general rules governing their naming and distribution.
Google Groups was the most popular and by far the largest Web-based Usenet archive (consisting of over 700 million posts dating from as early as 1981 [1]) until its advanced search functionality became nonfunctional in February 2015. [2]
News server; S. Supernews (Usenet provider) This page was last edited on 4 October 2010, at 19:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...