Updated: 12/29/2005
Inet-News
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Offline?Scoring?Filter outMult. servers
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DatamasternY
DNNewsYn*
DialogYYYY
Free AgentY
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GravityYYYY
MozillaYnY**
Netscape 4.xYnY***
NewsproYY
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* Freeware version does not support filtering.
** While Mozilla is a good newsreader, it is still considered beta. A crash can cause you to lose all your saved emails and articles.
*** Filters are based on each newsgroup, there are no global filters. Thus you must recreate the same filters for each different newsgroup. [Report a dead link]

Allnews
Freeware newsreader. Can connect to multiple servers AT THE SAME TIME thus greatly reducing lost posts which are part of multiple parts. Retrieving a list of available groups is not supported so you must know the name of the group you want to subscribe to. Supports killfile (including global kill rules for all newsgroups), filtering. [Report a dead link]
http://members.tripod.com/~MikeRead/allnews.htm

Coffeelink
News server for unix or Win NT. Written in Java. [Report a dead link]
http://www.burton-computer.com/clnews.html

Datamaster , 4,990kb
Newsreader. Can only read articles online. [Report a dead link]
http://software.inet24.ch/index.cfm

Dialog , 5,187kb
An offline newsreader. Free for personal use. 40tude Dialog is a feature loaded, multi-server, multi-threaded Windows newsreader with Unicode character support. It supports multiple servers and identities, has filtering/scoring support, integrated email functionality and binary support including support for multiparts. Dialog has a modern look and supports Windows XP themes. You can use a three pane layout for the list of newsgroups, the article list and message bodies with your preferred arrangement and you can zoom each of these panes. The toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts are fully customizable. Scoring and object pascal scripting support. (This looks pretty good.) [Report a dead link]
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/

Dnews
News server for unix, windows. [Report a dead link]
http://netwinsite.com/dnews/manual.htm

DnNews
Doug's news reader. Supports author scoring. [Report a dead link]
http://www.geocities.com/dougnbr/dos_dn.html

Forte FreeAgent , 1,079kb
Newsreader which supports online and offline reading. Multi-threading allows you to download articles from one group while browsing another group. Download a sample of headers to see what a newsgroup is about. View images. Supports multiple users. Freeware version does not support global filters, but commercial version does. Commercial version also has spelling checker, folders support, sorting articles, filtering in to display certain articles, MIME support. [Report a dead link]
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.htm

Giganews , 4,000kb
Welcome to the Giganews homepage! Giganews is a newsreader specialized for reading media files from the internet newsgroups. If you are interested in audio, video, or pictures, Giganews is a right choice. In the newsgroups, you will find a lot of media files downloadable with ease. Giganews has an integrated browser with the capability to display all common file types and even movies! Read more about the features below. It displays a registration reminder.

Supports: Unlimited news servers, account management to track download limits, background downloads while viewing articles, Completeness check for a series of files belonging together, A detective tool finds missing parts of your collections, Embedded encoder/decoder for base64, uu/xx and yEnc, Search for public and free news servers. [Report a dead link]
http://uwekel.bei.t-online.de/giganews.htm

Gmane.org
Free port from email list to usenet. Usenet is more convenient for reading list messages. Point newsreader to news.gmane.org. [Report a dead link]
http://gmane.org

Gravity , 2,340kb
Freeware newsreader. Integrated multi-part image viewer, multi-server support, article scoring, rules system, view filtering system, Bozo Bin (like a kill file, but for author email addresses only). Rules: define which newsgroups rule applies to (even use wildcards, or apply it to all newsgroups), then choose an action to perform if the article passes the rule. Also http://gravity.tbates.org/super.html and http://woundedmoon.org/win32_freeware.html. [Report a dead link]
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/

Hamster
Hamster is a local server for news and mail. It's a windows 32-bit program. It allows the use of multiple news- and mailservers and combines them to one mail- and newsserver for the news/mail-client. It loads faster than a normal newsreader because many threads can run simultaneously. It contains a scorefile for news and mail, a built-in script language, the GUI allows translation to other languages, it can be used in a network and that's not all the features. Hamster Tools at http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/. [Report a dead link]
http://www.tglsoft.de/misc/hamster_en.htm

JK News Archiver , 4,630kb
Newsreader which can act as an offline reader. [Report a dead link]
http://www.krumsiek.com/newsarchiver/eng/nav_1.html

Mahogany (alpha) , 10,500kb
Opensource newsreader for X11 and Windows. Supporting a wide range of protocols and standards, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NNTP and full MIME support. Thanks to its built-in Python interpreter it can be extended far beyond its original functionality.

Other features include support for calendar plugin, powerful and flexible address book (in addition to our native format, Emacs BBDB and vCards are supported, as well as importing and exporting in a variety of formats), support for synchronization with Palm, templates for message composition, full configurability of all program options (and beyond ;-) and much more. Supports filters with regexp. [Report a dead link]
http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/

Mountain Reader
Offline news reader. Supports QWK, SOUP and Bluewave formats (bbs formats). [Report a dead link]
http://www.mountain-software.com/freeware.htm

Mozilla
Mail/Newsreader which supports POP, SMTP, IMAP and usenet news. Incoming mail supports filtering out messages, but news messages do not have filters. Mozilla sometimes crashes, thus you lose all your email and news messages. [Report a dead link]
http://www.mozilla.org

MPNews
News server where you can create your own news groups. [Report a dead link]
http://www.mutantpenguin.co.uk/utils/mpnews.html

Netscape Communicator
Free newsreader and email program with browser. Supports filters by newsgroup, but not by news server and no global message filters. [Report a dead link]
www.netscape.com

News Xpress
Supports threads, global kill files with regexp. Has multiple windows which can act like a split screen. Can't move columns around. When adding a killfile entry, it always resorts on subject, not the sort order I chose under View. [Report a dead link]
http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html

Newsplex
News aggregator which gets multi-part messages from multiple servers to insure you have all the parts. [Report a dead link]
http://www.intarnut.com/newsplex/

Newspro
FREE newsreader. Strong multiple server support. Message filters can be saved and subsequently applied to any newsgroup window. Fastest news servers are chosen for downloading articles. Many articles are downloaded at the same time from different news servers in a transparent way. NewsPro supports displaying jpeg images and launching applications for other types of attachments. Straightforward support for multipart messages. Easy posting; an option to repost selected attachments or selected parts of previously posted messages. Saving and editing previously posted messages. Retrieving newsgroup lists. Global message filters for operation on database as a whole.

Difficult for beginners to use. Cannot move columns around. Setup is non-intuitive. No split-screen reading. [Report a dead link]
http://www.sover.net/~whoi/Internet2.html

Newsreaders.com
A website with everything about newsreaders. [Report a dead link]
http://www.newsreaders.com

Noworyta News Reader , 506kb
News reader. It has many advanced features: works with multiple Usenet servers in online and offline modes, supports multiple e-mail accounts, profiles, signatures, send attachments in MIME and UUE, ignore msgs by id, subject, or author, view filters, rules for new messages. The user interface is very friendly and can be configured; each level of the multiple quoted text of the e-mails and Usenet articles is colored differently. I liked this newsreader. It also has the split window, articles on top, body text on bottom, and a report of how many people are using what newsreader in the current group. Also at http://nnr.freeservers.com/. [Report a dead link]
http://www.mediahorizon.net/cgi-bin/search/freeware. cgi?ID=982123463

O-key reader
BETA newsreader. [Report a dead link]
http://www.o-key.com/
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Opera
Now freeware, it includes a newsreader. Also includes ads. [Report a dead link]
www.opera.com

PC-Pine
The Pine newsreader for the PC. 32-bit OS only (not Win 3.1). This actually runs in a DOS window. [Report a dead link]
http://www.washington.edu/pine/pc-pine/index.html

Pimmy
Mail and newsreader. Address book. No filtering or killfile. [Report a dead link]
http://www.geminisoft.com

SLRN
Newsreader can do offline reading. Uses console (DOS?) mode. SLRN supports scoring rules to highlight, sort or kill articles based on information from their header. It is highly customizable, allows free key-bindings and can easily be extended using the sophisticated s-lang macro language. Offline reading is possible by using either slrnpull (shipped with slrn) or a local newsserver. See also www.slrn.org. [Report a dead link]
http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html

Snews
Reader for DOS/Windows. [Report a dead link]
http://www.npsnet.com/danf/software/

Sophax
This is a news reader application with the functionality of an e-mail program. Customizable views and content filters come standard and it supports multiple news servers, viewing HTML messages, inline image viewing and non-English language messages. Current version is not free. [Report a dead link]
http://www.tucows.com/news95.html

StarOffice , 68,000kb
Mail/Newsreader. [Report a dead link]
http://www.sun.com/staroffice/

Win VN , 500kb
Newsreader for online reading of usenet. Cannot do offline reading. Supports filters. Does not save window positions. [Report a dead link]
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/software/winvn/winvn.html

WinQVT/Net , 11,000kb
Set of internet tools for Windows including terminal, FTP, email, newsreader. Shareware. [Report a dead link]
http://www.qpc.com/prod01.htm

XanaNews
Written in Delphi 7, source included. (An older version in Delphi 6.) [Report a dead link]
http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d7xananews.htm

Xnews , Rating: 4, Editor's Pick
Freeware newsreader. Has plonk file; view articles via regexp; advanced filter; supports multiple servers; organize groups into categories; binary handling; remap keyboard shortcuts, user profiles. Can't read articles offline. Defaults to large buttons, fonts for eyesight impaired people. Looks like a good package. Has a handy archive folder where you can save your articles. You can make multiple archive folders.

One of the better programs. [Report a dead link]
http://xnews.newsguy.com