Sven Guckes webpage-newsreaders@guckes.net ©2003-2004 | Latest change: Sun Jan 18 18:18:18 CET 2004 |
Overview: Dialog www.40tude.com/dialog/ ForteAgent www.forteinc.com Gnus www.gnus.org KNode knode.sourceforge.net MacSOUP home.snafu.de/stk/macsoup/ MesNews www.zoo-logique.org/mesnews/index-gb.php http://mesnews.no-ip.com MP-Gravity mpgravity.sf.net" NewsFlex www.home.zonnet.nl/panteltje/newsflex/ NewsManPro www.newsmanpro.com NewsPro www.usenetopia.com NewsSieve www.newssieve.com Noworyta nnr.freeservers.com OutlookExpress www.microsoft.com/windows/oe/ Pan pan.rebelbase.com Pine www.washington.edu/pine/ Slrn www.slrn.org SuperGravity lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/super.html Sylpheed sylpheed.good-day.net SylpheedClaws sylpheed-claws.sf.net Tin www.tin.org VirtualAccess www.atlantic-coast.com XNews xnews.newsguy.com DEAD? KNews www.matematik.su.se/~kjj/ Trn trn.sourceforge.net WebReader www.fractals.com/webreader/ yayam sourceforge.net/projects/yayam/
CHECK | Name + Version + ReleaseDate | HomePage | Comments+Identification |
031210 | Dialog 2.0.8.1 [2003-10-31] | www.40tude.com/dialog/ | Windows+Unicode |
031210 |
ForteAgent 1.93 [2002-12-24] ForteAgent 2.00 [2003-11-13] |
www.forteinc.com | |
031210 | Gnus 5.8/5.9 [YYYY-MM-DD] | www.gnus.org | |
031210 | KNode 0.7.1 [2002-04-07] | knode.sourceforge.net | |
031210 | MacSOUP 2.5 [2003-08-16] | home.snafu.de/stk/macsoup/ | Shareware. US$20 or 20Euros |
040117 | MesNews 1.00.05.00 [2003-12-28] | www.zoo-logique.org/mesnews/ |
X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.00.05.00 (windows)Win32. built with Delphi7. [EN,FR,NL] |
040113 | MicroPlanet Gravity 2.7 [to appear] | mpgravity.sf.net | Win32. Open Source since 2003-11-30 with BSD license. [http://www.microplanet.com/ looks quite dead.] |
031210 | NewsFlex 1.5.6 [2003-09-14] | www.home.zonnet.nl/panteltje/newsflex/ | |
031210 | NewsManPro 1.3.0.2 [2003-12-16] | www.newsmanpro.com |
X-Newsreader: NewsMan Pro 1.3aka NMP. Windows XP/2000. online/offline. multi-server. commercial (US$20). free version is "NewsMan" (one server and one download thread only). |
031210 | NewsPro 3.71 [2003-08-11] | www.usenetopia.com | Windows. Shareware, 30day trial. |
031210 | NewsSieve v?? [2003-01-15] | www.newssieve.com | Windows and "other systems". requires Java. |
031210 | Noworyta 2.9 [2002-10-12] | nnr.freeservers.com | GNKSA. |
031210 | OutlookExpress 6.00 | www.microsoft.com/windows/oe/ | evaluation well known bugs (document in german ) |
031210 |
Pan 0.14.2.90 [2003-11-28] Pan 0.14.2 [2003-08-31] |
pan.rebelbase.com | GPL. GNOME. GNKSA approved! good website. |
031210 | Pine 4.58 [2003-09-10] | www.washington.edu/pine/ | Mailer+Newsreader. Unix + Windows (PC-Pine). special license |
031210 | slrn 0.9.8.0 [2003-08-27] | www.slrn.org | GPL. TUI. Unix+Windows. Key Binding. Scriptable. Fast! stable development. good website. |
031210 | SuperGravity 2.6.2057 [2003-09-08] | tinyurl.com/yiis * | Windows. |
031210 | Sylpheed 0.9.7 [2003-10-15] | sylpheed.good-day.net | |
031210 | Sylpheed Claws 0.9.7 [2003-11-27] |
claws.sylpheed.org
sylpheed-claws.sf.net |
GPL. GTK+. |
031210 |
Tin 1.7.2 [2003-11-04] Tin 1.6.2 [2003-09-10] |
www.tin.org | GNKSA. |
031210 |
XNews 5.4.25 [2002-04-25] XNews 6.8.25 [2003-08-25] |
xnews.newsguy.com | Windows. GNKSA. |
CHECK | Newsreader Name + Version | HomePage | Identification |
031210 | KNews 1.0b1 [1998-12-29] | www.matematik.su.se/~kjj/ |
Identification not updated since 1998, it seems. looks dead. |
031210 | Trn 4.0.76 [2001-04-01] |
trn.sourceforge.net
https://sourceforge.net/projects/trn |
development seems dead now. |
031210 | WebReader 3.0 [1999-12-07] | www.fractals.com/webreader/ | Windows/Solaris/"other". JDK. yet another dead development? |
031210 | yayam | http://sourceforge.net/projects/yayam/ | "invalid project!" |
Agent/NewsPlex http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newsplex/ Gnews http://www.tu-harburg.de/~sejb3103/gnews/index.shtml Grin http://freeshell.org/~dlbeer/ GRN http://grn.sourceforge.net/ Gnome ReadNews KRN http://krn.sourceforge.net/ KDE ReadNews Mahogany http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ Newsleader http://home.wanadoo.nl/bram_s/newsleader NN http://www.nndev.org/ NomadNews http://tinyurl.com/z17c -> http://www.geocities.com/abandoned_software/nomadnews/ PINE http://www.washington.edu/pine/ PostOffice http://www.tarball.net/postoffice/ Pyne http://www.moretom.net/pyne/ rn http://www.academ.com/academ/rn.html SkateNews http://members.xoom.com/apostle1.1/SkateNews.html Sophax http://www.codeforge.co.uk/ (englisch) tass http://www.skrenta.com/tass/ trulsnews http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/trulsnews.html xrn http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn.html xvnews http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson/xvnews.html skim ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/news/readers/ no homepage? Vectrex rn 2.1 ??? XanaNews http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/delphi.htm User-Agent: XanaNews/1.15.8.4
WINDOWS: Forte Free Agent http://www.forteinc.com/agent/freagent.htm NetRopa InternetReceiver http://www.netropa.com/ News Xpress 32 ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/c/conrads/nx20b2.zip Smart Newsreader http://www.intel.com/iaweb/aplets/newsread.htm VirtualAccess http://www.atlantic-coast.com/ Virtual Access http://www.ashmount.com/vanetdl.htm Virtual Access Pro http://www.ashmount.com/ WinVN 32bit http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/software/winvn/winvn.html
UTIL NewsGrabber http://www.trontech.com.au/grabber/ newsreader stats http://www.newsreaders.com/link/clientstats.php
Big&Broken: Mozilla ... Netscape http://home.netscape.com/
Posting with FQDN is good. -> where to get one? http://www.my-fqdn.de
Binary News Reaper (BNR) MailList: bnr1-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Web: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bnr1/ newsrover http://www.NewsRover.com win32 commercial (US$30), 30day evaluation http://www.newsrover.com/whatsnew.htm win32 = Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP newsgrabber zeonews http://www.geminisoft.com/geminisoft.eng/ Pimmy 3.4.3 http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html ! http://www.giganews-binary-newsreader.com/ http://www.mailgate.org/ http://newsone.net/ http://newspost.unixcab.org/ http://www.mousetrap.net/~mouse/otr/xnewsbin.html http://www.my-newsgroups.com/ netnews.insightbb.com POPULAR NEWSREADERS general: NewsReader,WebReader. Mac OS: HogWasher,MT-NewsWatcher,MacSOUP,NewsWatcher,Thoth,YA-NewsWatcher. MS-DOS: AllNews,Gnus,Microplanet,NewsHound,Noworyta(nnr),Turnpike,Xnews. RISCOS: Pluto,MessengerPro. Unix: KNode(KDE),PAN,trn,xrn. Windows: ForteAgent,Gravity,NewsSieve,NewsPro,OutlookExpress,PostMe,SuperGravity. Cross platform: Gnus,Mozilla,Netscape,Pine,Slrn,Tin. USENET Dictionary (German): http://usenet-abc.de/
Even more stuff for beginners..
if your provider's domain is "domain.tld" then try whether "news.domain.tld" exists: $ host news.domain.tld is it online? $ ping news.domain.tld is the news port open? $ telnet news.domain.tld 119 $ telnet news.domain.tld news do you have to identify with a user+password? ... is there a posting restriction? (got more questions?) (is there such a FAQ already?)
yes, that should be "utilities for reading news", but...
http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/news-software-authors.html "Don't Write a Newsreader" (Version 1.13. Updated 1995-05-29) Read This Before You Write a Newsreader, News Transport System, etc. By Tom Limoncelli http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejs/gnksa/
EN alt.free.newsservers free newsservers around the world EN news.software.readers ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.software.readers/ Peter J. Kappesser Peter_Kappesser(at)promail.com DE de.comm.software.newsreader special newsgroups: DE de.comm.software.crosspoint DE de.comm.software.forte-agent DE de.comm.software.gnus DE de.comm.software.mozilla.mailnews DE de.comm.software.outlook-express DE de.comm.software.40tude-dialog
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