Overview:

News Readers: Usenet provides thousands of public forums (newsgroups) which can be easily accessible through a news server by using a news reader. A news reader is a program which will allow you to connect to news (NNTP) servers, read the articles posted and post your own. Other features you may find in a news reader include downloading and handling of binaries, support for custom made filters, X-Face viewing, simultaneous connections to multiple newsgroups and servers.

Dialog

• Version Number: 2.0.3.2
• Revision Date: 24 November 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Marcus Moennig
• Home Page: http://www.40tude.com
• Description: Fully features usenet client with extensive email support. Supports multiple email and news servers, X-Face, scripting, online/offline mode, mouse gestures, unicode, yEnc, zip compression of attachments and HTML viewing and comes with tons of options.
  

Gravity

• Version Number: 2.50
• Revision Date: 19 June 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: MicroPlanet
• Home Page: http://www.microplanet.com
• Description: A feature rich reader with an extended rule system, spelling checker, search capabilities, options to customize server and newsgroup settings, online/offline modes, binary management, multiple server support and more. (Note : You can also check Super Gravity Unofficial Release)
  

Jake's Super Newsreader

• Version Number: Alpha
• Revision Date: 03 February 2003
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: John M. Jacobson
• Home Page: http://www.xnet.com/~johnjac
• Description: A multithreaded/multitasking news client utilizing a database backend for all its operations. Supports multiple servers and extensive options and filtering capabilities, yEnc, multiple tabs, binary image downloading and viewing and colour codes.
  

NewsRover

• Version Number: 8
• Revision Date: 03 February 2003
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: S&H Computer Systems, Inc
• Home Page: http://www.newsrover.com
• Description: A news client with many advanced features, including virtual groups, picture browsing, scheduled tasks, proxy and SOCKS server support, support for multiple servers, filtering, RAR support, PalmPilot synchronization, statistics and spelling checker. Automatically combines and decodes multipart messages, autoscans newsgroups for interesting messages and can automate search and downloading of MP3 files.
  

Nographer

• Version Number: 1.1 Preview 8
• Revision Date: 26 April 2002
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Andy Green
• Home Page: http://www.nographer.com
• Description: Nographer allows you to use any web browser for usenet access by using Nographer as a middleware server. In this way you can provide centralized newsgroup access to networks, view attachements directly in your browser, including yEnc encoded, add signatures and accounts or even custom html based skins.
  

Noworyta News Reader

• Version Number: 2.9
• Revision Date: 25 October 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Filip Noworyta
• Home Page: http://nnr.freeservers.com/
• Description: A new approach to news reading, NNR provides online/offline mode, user defined folders and message organization and mailing capabilities, plus many configuration options.
  

O-key Reader

• Version Number: 1.20
• Revision Date: 15 December 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: O-key
• Home Page: http://www.o-key.com
• Description: User friendly usenet client with support for multiple servers, filters, HTML and online/offline mode. O-key has the ability to search local and online news archives and display a server guide, gather links from usenet posts, display pictures and download binaries.
  

Pan

• Version Number: 0.13.3.90
• Revision Date: 03 February 2003
• Licence: Open Source
• Manufacturer: Charles Kerr
• Home Page: http://pan.rebelbase.com
• Description: A fully featured and highly configurable news client with Online/Offline mode and support for binary downloading, task management and extensive filters. (Note: Pan is available on a variety of platforms)
  

Pravda

• Version Number: 1.26
• Revision Date: 26 October 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Alex Kaufman
• Home Page: http://www.kaufmansoft.com
• Description: A simple online news reader with a pleasant and easy to follow interface, built-in image viewer, support for multiple servers and spelling checker.
  

Sophax

• Version Number: 1.5
• Revision Date: 24 November 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Codeforge Limited
• Home Page: http://www.codeforge.co.uk
• Description: A colourful newsreader with support for multiple servers, online/offline mode, backup/restore functions, highly customizable filters and many options. (Note: a shareware version with more features is also available)
  

XanaNews

• Version Number: 1.12.57
• Revision Date: 31 January 2003
• Licence: Open Source
• Manufacturer: Cat Wilson
• Home Page: http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk
• Description: Completely customizable news client with support for multiple servers, newsgroup statistics, SSL, X-Face, messagebases. Provides a batch mode, extensive filters and integration with XanaNewz.
  

Xnews

• Version Number: 06.01.10
• Revision Date: 31 January 2003
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Luu Tran
• Home Page: http://xnews.3dnews.net
• Description: Fully featured pseudo-offline news reader with support for multiple servers and windows, flexible attachement posting and downloading, queueing system, XFace, yEnc, image viewing, extensive scoring capabilities and fully customizable interface.