NNTP News Readers

The newsgroups are a great resource for technical information, Mp3's and Free P0rn.

Searching Usenet:
DejaNews
AltaVista
HotBot
Excite

Pay News Sites

Windows based news readers.

• Agent: by Forte, Inc does news and mail. (FreeAgent does news)
  • Agent Links and Utilities
  • Agent Tools by jonzonk
  • Forte Agent filter import/export utility by Murray Peterson
• GNUS mail and newsreader for EMACS.
• Gravity: by Microplanet, Inc. (version 2.5 is now freeware)
  • Tom's Gravity Pages: An Unofficial User's Site
• Netscape: puts a newsreader in some versions of their software.
  • FixNews by Desiderata Software "works in conjunction with the newsreader, and provides the ability to "killfile", i.e. to filter articles based upon the subject and/or author.Ê Wildcard support is included."
  • Netscape Unofficial FAQ
  • books
  • newsgroups about Netscape
  • Mozilla -- open-source version
• NewsRover by S&H Computer Systems handles regular and binary newsgroups. Win 95/98/NT. Has a password protection feature.
• Nographer by Andy Green makes USENET into a website using your web browser (it acts as a gateway; it acts as a web server to your browser, and as a client to your news host). Pictures show inline, audio and movies as links. Multipart binaries are a single click. Download/upload queue, threading, 1MB download. Free Open Source (GPL) software.
• Opera browser is not only a great alternative to Netscape or Internet Explorer for browsing, but it also includes a newsreader and mail client.
  • Opera-users mailing list.
  • Opera newsgroups
  • opera.mail+news newsgroup
• Outlook Express by Microsoft does news and e-mail.
  • Wishlist for OE6 from microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.outlookexpress.wishlist newsgroup
  • Inside Outlook Express 5
  • Outlook Express User Tips Home Page
  • books
  • Newsgroups
    • microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.outlookexpress.wishlist newsgroup
    • msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress newsgroup
    • msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress newsgroup
    • msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress newsgroup
  • OE for Win 3.1
• Ozum by OzInsight "the All-In-One newsreader, has been optimized for multimedia content and is aimed at the Usenet service users who regularly access multimedia objects like sound, video and image files. Ozum's multimedia sampling allows users to make informed decisions on whether they want the multimedia object(s) or not before they download it. It is the only newsreader that allows you to view or listen to individual parts of multipart audio/video files (mpg/mpeg, avi, asf, rm, mp3, wav; and more being added soon) without having to download and assemble the whole file. It automatically downloads, assembles and decodes binary files and rejects duplicates."
• StarOffice by Sun does mail and news, as well as word processing, spreadsheet, graphic and presentation programs, event scheduler, an equation generator, and an HTML editor. Comes in Windows, OS/2, Unix, and Linux versions. Free for individual non-commercial use. (purchase CD)
  • mail and news features
  • supportforum.sun.com/staroffice.com.support.stardiscussion newsgroup about the newsreader portion of StarOffice
  • supportforum.sun.com/staroffice.de.support.stardiscussion (German)
  • StarOffice Users Group Portal
  • OpenOffice: StarOffice open source site
  • books

Dos Based Readers:

• Net-Tamer: a DOS (XT's and up) web browser that allows offline reading. Also runs on the PalmTop.
  • Has it's own newsgroup: alt.comp.shareware.nettamer
• NewsWerthy: DOS offline line SOUP newsreader by William Werth.
• NOS-BOX: DOS mail/news reader.
• rnr: by Russell Schulz. DOS uucp/waffle newsreader
• Snews: by Dan Fandrich. A OS/2, Windows and DOS newsreader.
• Trumpet: Windows/DOS newsreader (has a link to forthcoming features - as of May 1995).
• YARN: a text mode only newsreader for DOS, Win95, OS/2.

Moderator Utilities:

• DMod: for moderating a newsgroup (Win95/NT).

Binary Posting Utilities:

• BigFilePoster by TechSono "will chop it up into parts small enough for newsgroups, encode the parts, and then post them."
• Newsblaster: runs under Windows 95 and NT and is a update to AutoPost.
• Power Post by Chris Morse helps automate posting.
• NewsSpy "NewsSpy's task is to monitor messages posted in a newsgroup and inform you when someone replies to a certain message."