tend to be the most difficult to learn. example Usenet Explorer See also List of Usenet newsreaders Comparison of Usenet newsreaders Category Usenet clients software type stub network software stub de Newsreader es Lector de noticias fr Lecteur de nouvelles ko it Newsreader nl NewsreaderUsenet pl Newsreader zh Usenet ...Verifiability date October 2009 A newsreader is an application software application program that reads articles on Usenet generally known as Usenet newsgroup newsgroup , either directly from the news server s disks or via the Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP . Newsreaders that help users to adhere to the netiquette are evaluated by the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval GNKSA . There are several different types of newsreaders, depending on the type of service the user needs &mdash whether intended primarily for discussion or for downloading files posted to the alt.binaries hierarchy. Although Usenet originally started as a message board without any file attachment ability, many Usenet users today do not participate in Network News Transfer Protocol discussion groups, as was common during the 1980s and 1990s before the emergence of website forums, and only use Newsgroups for downloading files such as music, movies, software and games. Therefore, their needs call for a streamlined client for quickly grabbing binary attachments, and without the extraneous clutter of text reading and posting features for which file downloaders have little use. As NZB files have largely replaced the inefficient and time consuming process of having to download headers, many of the more recently developed binary downloading clients have dropped header support entirely. Types of Clients Traditional newsreaders designed primarily for reading posting text posts limited and often cumbersome binary attachment download functionality. example most email clients such as Outlook and Netscape, as well as more ... more details
Wiktionary Newsreader can refer to NewsreaderUsenet , a computer program for reading Usenet newsgroups News presenter , a person that presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet News aggregator , a computer program for syndicated Web content supplied in the form of a web feed disambig id Pembaca berita nl Newsreader ... more details
, with modern NewsreaderUsenet news reader software , as with web forums and BBSes, though posts are stored on the server sequentially. One notable difference between a BBS or web forum and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large ... NewsreaderUsenet news software such as A News . The name USENET emphasized its creators hope that the USENIX ... server. NewsreaderUsenetNewsreader clients are available for all major operating systems. ref cite ... Usenet servers accessible via NewsreaderUsenetnewsreader or the Web. Other sites host and archive ...File Usenet servers and clients.svg 250px thumb A diagram of Usenet servers and clients. The blue, green ... to a certain group and reads or submits articles. Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion ... in 1980. ref name Lueg From Usenet to CoWebs interacting with social information ... categories, known as newsgroup s . Usenet resembles a bulletin board system BBS in many respects, and is the precursor to the various Internet forum s that are widely used today. Usenet can be superficially ... by their Internet service provider , university, or employer. Introduction Usenet is one of the oldest ..., and Tom Truscott 1980 . http ftp.digital.com pub news a a.news.tar.Z USENET A General Access UNIX Network . inside archive as usenet uprop.n ref The articles that users post to Usenet are organized ... operate on a similar principle but for Usenet it is normally the sender, rather than the receiver, who ... high speed network access. Usenet was designed for the times when networks were much slower, and not always available. Many sites on the original Usenet network would connect only once or twice a day ... Store And Forward Communication UUCP and FidoNet . Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. ref Usenet ... http www.newsdemon.com usenet term spam.php title USENET Newsgroup Terms SPAM ref The format and transmission of Usenet articles is similar to that of Internet e mail messages. The difference between ... more details
Multiple issues COI March 2009 unreferenced March 2009 notability March 2009 Infobox Software name Groundhog screenshot caption developer Juanjo Alvarez Almarsoft latest release version 1.7.0 latest release date 2009 02 19 operating system Android operating system Android genre news client OSI approved yes license GNU General Public License GPL v2 website https code.launchpad.net groundhog launchpad.net Groundhog Newsreader is a Usenet Newsreader Usenet newsreader for the Android operating system Android mobile platform. It was published by Almarsoft on March 5, 2009 on the Android Market . In 2010 it was released under the free and open source software license GPL version 2 on launchpad.net. It supports the following features Online offline operation modes. Binary attachments in MIME or uuencoded format only for reading. Colors for the different levels of quoting. Basic threading, grouping articles with similar subject together, marking changes on subject and using a level indicator using ASCII chars. Basic scoring using stars, and filtering of threads and authors. Mail forwarding of Usenet messages. See also Comparison of Usenet newsreaders Category Usenet clients Category Free Usenet clients Category Android operating system Category Free software ... more details
lowercase title nn nn No News is Good News is a Unix based news client , which is a client software program for accessing Usenet servers. nn was originally written in 1984 by Kim F. Storm to provide an alternative more user friendly way to access Usenet than the existing newsreaders. nn is currently at version 6.7.3, and is now maintained by Michael T. Pins . nn was known for its mode separation between choosing and reading articles. Threads were presented for reading or skipping, and once all choices in a newsgroup were made, the user continued on to reading the selected articles. See also List of news clients External links http www.nndev.org The nn newsreader &mdash the official nn homepage. unix stub network software stub Category Free Usenet clients ... more details
on TASS software TASS newsreader, whose source code had been posted in 1991 on USENET by Rich Skrenta ... cursor control and page oriented text scrolling to make navigating usenet easier. While it did not have ... 9003d570c82ed9a1?tvc 1 9003d570c82ed9a1 title Tass 3.2 newsreader author Rick Skrenta newsgroup ... title ANNOUNCEMENT tin v1.00 YAN Yet Another Newsreader author Iain Lea date August 24, 1991 newsgroup ... by Urs Jan en. The program is generally compared with rn newsreader trn or nn newsreader nn . ref cite ... Guide &mdash pages Chapter 24. Newsreader Configuration first Olaf last Kirch coauthors Terry Dawson ... using gettext , as well as IPv6 support have kept the application current. Unlike rn newsreader trn or nn newsreader nn , it is easy to follow the progress of changes since 1995 in tin because ... http www.tin.org tin.org Official homepage http www.skrenta.com tass Notes on tass Category Free Usenet clients Category Termcap Category Terminfo Category Curses programming library de Tin Newsreader id Tin newsreader pl Tin ... more details
one source date September 2010 lowercase title rn newsreader rn short for Read News is a news client or newsreader written by Larry Wall and originally released in 1984. It was one of the first newsreaders to take full advantage of character addressable CRT terminals vnews , by Kenneth Almquist was first . Previous newsreaders, such as readnews , were mostly line oriented and designed for use on the printing terminals which were common on the early Unix minicomputers where the Usenet software and network originated. Later variants of the original rn program included rrn , trn , and strn . ref cite web url http www.faqs.org faqs usenet software part1 title Usenet Software History and Sources author Mark Moraes date December 28, 1999 ref Features rn was also notable for three other features it introduced kill file KILL files , do the right thing , and automatic configuration. The KILL file was a file called, obviously enough, tt KILL tt containing regular expressions matched against the subjects of news articles in each group if an article matched, it would be marked as having already been read. This feature proved essential as the growth of the Usenet made it impossible to read every article in even a limited selection of newsgroups. Do the right thing was a fundamental change in the user ... all of the Usenet software, were distributed in source code form. Because different vendors ..., such as autoconf . History Like all of the original newsreaders and the Usenet software itself ... threaded newsreader, was needed as users gradually switched from a read most, kill few model ..., using headers that had long been present in Usenet articles but practically unused, a threaded newsreader would allow users to keep up with topics and discussions they were interested without having to explicitly deselect uninteresting threads. Kim F. Storm s nn newsreader nn newsreader was the first ... Category Free Usenet clients ... more details
Pan official homepage FLOSS DEFAULTSORT Pan Newsreader Category Usenet clients Category Free Usenet clients Category Linux internet software Category BSD software network software stub de Pan Newsreader es Pan software fr Pan logiciel ja Pan pl Pan czytnik news ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2008 A usenet newsgroup is a wikt repository repository usually within the Usenet ... Newsreader software is used to read newsgroups. Despite the advent of file sharing technologies ... to Usenet see main article , newsgroups continue to be widely used. Types of newsgroups Typically .... Generally, Usenet conventions and rules are enacted with the primary intention of minimizing the overall ... 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, but only 20,000 or so of those are active. Citation needed date June ... spam ming . A website called Deja News began archive archiving Usenet in the mid 1990s. DejaNews ... other Usenet archives to attempt to create a complete archive of Usenet newsgroups and postings ... also allows newsgroup posting. Non Usenet newsgroups are possible and do occur, as private individuals ..., outside of the Big 8 and alt. hierarchies, are failure prone. Hierarchies Main Big 8 Usenet Newsgroups ... commonly known hierarchies is the usenet hierarchies . So for instance newsgroup rec.arts.sf.starwars.games would be in the rec. top level usenet hierarchy, where the asterisk is defined as a wildcard character . There were seven original major hierarchies of usenet newsgroups, known as the Big 7 comp. Discussion of computer related topics news. Discussion of Usenet itself sci. Discussion of scientific .... Among those that the usenet cabal who effectively ran the Big 7 at the time did not allow ... of an alt. short for alternative usenet hierarchy, under which these groups would be allowed ... of obstacles to the transmission of binary files over Usenet. First, Usenet was designed with the transmission ... which would survive transmission over Usenet. At the receiver s end, the data needed to be decoded ... the file. These advances have meant that Usenet is used to send and receive many terabytes of files ... UsenetUsenet servers dmoz Computers Usenet Public News Servers Public News Servers http www.big ... mlnhtables.html Alphabetical list of usenet hierarchies http www.anta.net misc nnq The news.newusers.questions ... more details
nofootnotes date September 2009 Usenet II was a proposed alternative to the classic Usenet hierarchy, started in 1998 . Unlike the original Usenet, it was peered only between sound sites and employs a system of rules to keep out spam. The network still exists, but has carried almost no posts apart from FAQs for many years. The newsgroup hierarchy revived the old naming system used by Usenet before the Great Renaming . All groups had names starting net. , which serve to distinguish them from the Big 8 misc., sci., news., rec., soc., talk., comp., humanities. . A separate checkgroup system, using the same technical mechanism as the one produced by David C. Lawrence for the Big 8, enforced the Usenet II hierarchy and prevents the creation of unauthorized newsgroups within it. The basic principles ... responsible for the content of specific portions of the namespace, or hierarchies. Usenet II had strictly enforced rules. Readers of messages in Usenet II must be fully compliant with the RFC 1036 Usenet standard plus some additional format compliance rules specific to Usenet II. A message header must ... every day or every week is not permitted. There are a number of Usenet II hosts still operating, but traffic is largely limited to FAQ postings. The effort to extend Usenet II was abandoned as technical means to fight spam and other abuse on traditional Usenet became more effective and spammers migrated from Usenet to email. Usenet II policies have been adopted by private and restricted distribution Usenet hierarchies. See also Network News Transfer Protocol Usenet References and external links http www.usenet2.org Usenet II http groups.google.com groups dir?sel 33600196&expand 1 Usenet II on Google Groups http wired vig.wired.com news technology 0,1282,10538,00.html Usenet II Freedom ... Usenet II Urges Netizens to Come On In HotWired story, April 2, 1998 Category Usenet Compu network stub de Usenet II ... more details
Primary sources date May 2009 Infobox Software name Usenet Explorer logo screenshot caption author developer developer Alex Birj released 2005 latest release version 3.1 latest release date 2010 29 08 latest preview version latest preview date programming language operating system Microsoft Windows Windows platform language status Active genre News client license Proprietary software Proprietary , Shareware website http www.usenetexplorer.com UsenetExplorer.com Usenet Explorer is a combination news client for the Microsoft Windows operating system also fully compatible with the Linux Wine software which performs equally well for both Usenet binary and text posts. It is capable of handling newsgroups as large as hundred million of headers or more. For a Usenet client it has low RAM consumption and very low CPU usage. A Usenet indexing service with 750 day retention and Boolean logic boolean wildmat as search pattern language is integrated into the program. Releases following v2.0 include automatic unpacking feature par2 repair unrar joining split files without user intervention when using integrated search or nzb file as a download source the download is presented as a single combined entry so called custom collection and all the way to the ready to view or listen media files then becomes seamless and completely automatic. This simple routine makes the program valuable to novice Usenet users. Usenet Explorer supports all existing standards for compressing headers and includes native x64 version. The program is shareware , posting and par2 repair QuickPar replacement features are free. See also List of Usenet newsreaders Comparison of Usenet newsreaders External links http www.usenetexplorer.com UsenetExplorer.com Category Usenet clients Category Shareware network software stub ... more details
Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation ARMM was a program developed by Richard Depew in 1993 to aid in the control of Usenet abuse. Concerned by abusive posts emanating from certain anonymous posting sites, Depew developed ARMM to allow news administrators to automatically issue cancel messages for such posts. This was a controversial act, as many news administrators and users were concerned about censorship of the netnews medium. An early version of ARMM contained a bug which caused it to post follow ups to its own messages, recursively sending posts to the news.admin.policy newsgroup. This was an early example of unintentional Usenet spamming spam . ref http www.catb.org esr jargon html A ARMM.html ARMM Bot generated title ref ref http groups.google.com groups?selm tweekC4qM0A.H3q netcom.com ref References references Category Usenet Category Spam filtering tr ARMM Usenet ... more details
The USENET Cookbook was an experiment in electronic publishing conducted by Brian Reid computer scientist Brian Reid in 1985 1987, several years before the World Wide Web Web . Reid distinguishes between electronic printing the production of individual documents and electronic publishing the full process including dissemination . The USENET cookbook was a collaboratively produced cookbook. Recipes were solicited from contributors worldwide. They were heavily copy editing edited for style and content and distributed by email weekly later, they were distributed on the USENET newsgroup alt.gourmand . Recipes were distributed both as plain ASCII text, and markup language marked up in troff , a widely available system on Unix systems. Much of Reid s effort was devoted to the workflow aspects of publication. There were about 300 contributors and 13000 subscribers to its regular updates, and over 400 recipes collected. The recipes were shown copyrighted by the USENET Community Trust with the notice blockquote Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the USENET copyright notice and the title of the newsgroup and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or the original contributor. blockquote The recipes continue to circulate widely today on the Web. References Brian K., Reid, http www.hpl.hp.com techreports Compaq DEC WRL 87 7.html USENET Cookbook An Experiment in Electronic Publication , Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Laboratory now HP Labs Technical Report WRL 87 7, December 1987. External links http web.archive.org web 20070429112607 http ftp.digital.com pub recipes USENET cookbook archives at an ftp.digital.com mirror original gone http groups.google.com group alt.gourmand topics?start 10&sa N alt.gourmand archives at Google Groups Category History of the Internet Category Publishing organizations ... more details
to as a leading Usenet Terrorist by James Farmer, maintainer of http web.archive.org web 20040212175535 ... Gibbering clones the future of Usenet? cite web url http www.killfile.org dungeon why hipcrime.html ... June 1998 See also List of spammers Category Usenet Category Usenet people internet stub ... more details
Refimprove date September 2007 A Usenet celebrity or Usenet personality is a particular kind of Internet ... from posting on Usenet , a global Social network network of computer users with a vast array of topics for discussion. Since its inception, Usenet newsgroup s have attracted a wide variety of people posting all manner of fact, fiction, theories, opinions, and beliefs. Some Usenet posters have achieved a certain amount of Wiktionary fame fame or infamy and celebrity within Usenet circles because of their unusual ... for his incessant and frequently bizarre posts to various Usenet newsgroups. In particular, he gained ... http groups.google.co.uk group sci.astro.amateur msg 06b54621ddd567c6 Usenet posting on the occasion ... stopped appearing on Usenet after 1998, although he continued writing essays up to 2003. He .... Scott Abraham skiing enthusiast banned by court order in 1999 from posting on the Usenet newsgroup ... politics law news 1999 11 32550 Usenet Ban a Slippery Slope? , wired.com , 1999 11 16 ref Serdar Argic alias used in one of the first automated newsgroup spam incidents on Usenet, with the objective ... Archive Valery Fabrikant s home page ref Hipcrime Usenet Hipcrime called a leading Usenet terrorist ... of Usenet, ref http groups.google.com groups profile?enc user VBTjwBQAAACGa67HqWvDnaygV keAP8gu4lJHmc1F3kkd59baL6OJA ... newbie on Usenet. Posts usually consisted of uppercase text containing many exclamation mark bangs .... Joel Furr Joel K. Jay Furr Usenet poster in the early 1990s immortalized in the newsgroups alt.fan.joel ... of James Kibo Parry, and the bitter enemy of Serdar Argic. Furr was also notable on Usenet for his ..., scathingly humorous and knowledgeable postings to Usenet science fiction newsgroups. He guarded ... work is the Lensman FAQ and voluminous Usenet postings. Internet Oracle The Internet Oracle a.k.a. The Usenet Oracle collective effort at humor in a question and answer format, wherein a user ... high volume but thoughtful posts, but achieved USENET celebrity circa 1991 by writing a small ... more details
When Usenet and e mail users respond to a message, they often want to include some context for the discussion. This is often accomplished by quoting a portion of the original message. Examples Usenet standard quoting refers to the practice of preceding the original message with the or right angle bracket character at the beginning of each line, and then inserting one s responses inline, using no special designator for the author s messages. pre hello, how are you? I am fine pre When a second response is made to the second message, the second message is again quoting with , perhaps causing parts of the original message to now be designated with . Such nested quotations can technically be continued indefinitely, but quickly become cumbersome. pre hello, how are you? I am fine Good, I am also fine. pre Enhanced quoting such as facilitating by the Emacs supercite module , includes more context by using the initials or a short form of the name. The program has to be careful not to quote already quoted material pre first hello, how are you? I am fine. pre pre first hello, how are you? second I am fine. Good, I am also fine. pre It is often the case that it makes sense, particularly in the simple quoting case, to insert a note telling who said what pre Last Saturday, when the sun was nice, Second Guy said Last thursday, while eating popcorn, First Guy said hello, how are you? I am fine Good, I am also fine. pre Canonical quoting There is no standard declaring one way of quoting to be right and others to be wrong , but some standards depend on conventions. The http www.chemie.fu berlin.de outerspace netnews son of 1036.html son of 1036 draft recommends tt > tt as the quote prefix http www.ietf.org rfc rfc3676.txt RFC 3676 depends on it and considers tt > > tt and tt > > tt to be semantically different. That is, tt > > tt has a quote depth ... July 2010 References Internet stub Category Usenet ... more details
File Plonk.png thumb right 350px Plonk warning Plonk is a Usenet jargon term for adding a particular poster to one s kill file such that the poster s future postings are completely ignored. It was first used in 1989, and by 1994 ref http catb.org esr jargon html P plonk.html ref was a commonly used term on Usenet regarding kill file additions. The word is an example of onomatopoeia , intended to humorously represent the supposed sound ref cite web title The first plonk url http rs79.vrx.net works usenet terms plonk publisher Richard Sexton, VRx date 25 February 2008 accessdate 2008 02 25 ref of the user hitting the bottom of the kill file imagining perhaps the kill file as a bucket . It is also sometimes given as an acronym standing for Please Log Off, Net Kook, though this is likely a backronym . Other used expressions are p ut l amer on k illfile ref http groups.google.com groups?q put lamer on killfile ref and P lease L eave O ur N ewsgroup K illfile It is also used as a verb I plonked that idiot Tom . As a public repudiation of the plonked poster, it is appended to the end of one s reply or may constitute the entire reply . A user might also simply reply to the impugned post with the word Plonk . The term s usage later expanded to include the use of e mail filtering e mail filters that delete incoming messages that meet certain filter criteria set by the receiving user, so block messages from annoying senders. It has also often been figuratively used on Bulletin board system BBSes , online forums webboards , weblog blogs , and wikiwiki wikis which usually do not actually have filters , and is occasionally used in reference to blocking a user on an IM protocol. First known use The http groups.google.com group alt.flame browse thread thread b1e46797b46e0466 c95ebcc28b56e714?lnk st&q 22 plonk 22&rnum 2&hl en c95ebcc28b56e714 first known use was in 1989 by a Richard Sexton ... References reflist Category Usenet Category Internet slang de Plonk fr Plonk nl Plonk pl Plonk ... more details
Notability date February 2010 Primary sources date February 2010 Infobox software name cg logo screenshot caption author developer released latest release version 0.4 latest release date start date and age 2002 05 13 latest preview version latest preview date programming language operating system Linux , FreeBSD , Mac OS X , NetBSD , OpenBSD , OpenSolaris platform language status genre News client license GNU General Public License website http nih.at cg lowercase title cg is a binary grabbing news client for the command line. It combines available files and shows the user a selection in an editor. It supports mass saving and decoding of multi part attachments encoded in uuencode , yEnc and base64 . cg is free software licensed under the GNU General Public Licence . See also List of news clients External links http nih.at cg cg official homepage Category Free Usenet clients network software stub ... more details
Orphan date September 2010 Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. Web based Usenet is a system where as a typical newsreader client is not necessary to access the data but, is made available via a Web browser . Introduction Usenet newsgroups are normally accessed by a newsreader that allows the user to access the encoded data. The user must obtain a news server account and a newsgroup reader to decode the data made available through the users newsgroup server. With web based Usenet, all of the technical aspects of setting up an account and retrieving data are alleviated by allowing access with one account. All of the data is already decoded and made available for viewing via any web browser. Setup and access The browser interface offered by web based Usenet providers is typically known as a Usenet browser. All of the data is already compiled and ready for viewing. Normally, they will have a thumb nail format for their images and videos to make browsing much faster and simpler. Typically, there is no set up for web based Usenet. It s as easy as navigating your browser to the providers web site. Web based Usenet is especially useful for those who have access to the internet but do not have or do not know how to set up a Usenet server newsreader . Web based popularity Google groups is the most popular web based Usenet browsers and has Terabytes of archived data ... based Usenet archive. ref Cite web url http www.readwriteweb.com archives google fixes usenet archive old geeks rejoice.php title news Google Fixes Usenet Archive Old Geeks Rejoice ref Many other websites ... of Usenet and the rise in the use of the World Wide Web, it only seems natural to merge the two. External links Web based Usenet providers http groups.google.com ?pli 1 Google groups http www.pocketbinaries.com Pocketbinaries http www.guba.com GUBA References Reflist 1 Category Usenet Category Usenet clients Category Usenet free posting ... more details
shareware for Windows Unison Usenet client Unison for Mac OS X Usenet Explorer Groundhog Newsreader for Android Freeware 40tude Dialog IBM Web Explorer Opera Mail Xnews Shareware Unison Usenet ...refimprove date February 2011 inline date February 2011 There are several different types of NewsreaderUsenetnewsreader s, depending on the type of service the user needs whether intended primarily for discussion or for downloading files posted to the alt.binaries hierarchy. Although Usenet originally started as a message board without any file attachment ability, many Usenet users today do not participate in NNTP discussion groups, as was common during the 1980s and 1990s before the emergence of website forums, and only use Newsgroups for downloading files such as music, movies, software and games. Therefore, their needs call for a streamlined client for quickly grabbing binary attachments, and without the extraneous clutter of text reading and posting features that file downloaders have ... of their choice, when it is done regularly the process is not time consuming if the newsreader has ... difficult to learn. example Usenet Explorer Graphical Proprietary software Commercial software Binbot ... & Newsgroups discontinued, renamed to SeaMonkey Mozilla Thunderbird Pan newsreader Pan SABnzbd SeaMonkey SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups Sylpheed XPN newsreader XPN Text based Agora web browser Agora email server, discontinued Alpine e mail client Alpine cg newsreader cg Gnus Emacs based Line Mode Browser Lynx web browser Lynx has limited Usenet support Mutt e mail client Mutt nn newsreader nn Pine e mail client Pine rn newsreader rn Slrn tin newsreader tin Wanderlust software wanderlust Emacs based See also Portal Internet Comparison of Usenet newsreaders External links dmoz Computers Software Internet Clients UsenetUsenet clients http www.macorchard.com usenet Macintosh Newsreaders at The Mac Orchard Category Usenet clients Usenet clients Category Lists of software Newsreaders ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 This is a Comparison of NewsreaderUsenetUsenet Newsreaders . Please ... with Usenet Service cg newsreader cg Text based Binary Grabber Yes No No No No No No No Free Unix ... browser Lynx Text based Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Yes Yes Free Cross platform GPL Limited USENET support MicroPlanet Gravity GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Free Microsoft Windows BSD licenses BSD rh2 Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No No Free Cross platform ... License Other Arachne software Arachne GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Free DOS , Unix like GPL ... newsgroup service trial Shareware Gemini mail news GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No No Yes ... Text based Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No No Yes Yes No Free Cross platform GPL Runs in Emacs also ... Proprietary Usenet Search Service KLibido GUI Binary Grabber Yes No Yes No No No Free Unix like GPL KDE KNode GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Free Unix like GPL KDE Lotus Notes GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Varies Microsoft Windows , Unix like , Mac OS X Proprietary Name Interface Type ... Mozilla Thunderbird GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No No Yes Yes Free Cross platform Mozilla Public ... Freeware Novell GroupWise GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Varies Microsoft Windows , Unix like Proprietary Opera Mail GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No Yes Yes Free Cross platform Proprietary Part of Opera web browser Opera rh2 Outlook Express GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No No Yes Yes Microsoft Windows Proprietary Part of Microsoft Windows up to Windows XP XP Pan newsreader ... Seamonkey Mail & Newsgroups GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No No Free Cross platform Mozilla ... Text based computing text based Traditional Newsreader Yes Yes using macros Yes using macros Yes ... language S Lang scripts macros Sylpheed GUI Traditional Newsreader Yes No No Yes Free Cross platform GPL LGPL Gtk tin newsreader tin Text based computing text based Traditional Newsreader Yes No No No Yes ... more details
Infobox Software name XPN logo Image Xpn0.png 75px XPN icon screenshot Image XPN main large.png 250px caption XPN 0.5.7 running on Linux developer http nem01.altervista.org Antonio Caputo latest release version 1.2.6 ref cite web url http xpn.altervista.org codice ChangeLog title ChangeLog accessdate 2010 08 19 ref latest release date release date and age 2009 01 02 operating system multiplatform genre News client license GPL website http xpn.altervista.org index en.html xpn.altervista.org XPN X Python Newsreader is a news client written in Python programming language Python and based on the GTK library. Features It offers a good MIME support, scoring system, filtered views, random tag lines, external editor support, one key navigation, ROT13 , Face and X Face headers decoding, spoiler char and many more. XPN is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL licence. Thanks to Python programming language Python and GTK it is completely multiplatform . It should work wherever Python and GTK work. A binary Microsoft Windows Windows version is also provided. XPN is available in English, Italian, French and German. ScreenShots Image XPN main large.png thumb none 300px XPN running on Linux Image XPN main win large.png thumb none 300px XPN running on Windows See also List of news clients References Reflist External links http xpn.altervista.org index en.html XPN s official homepage http sf.net projects xpn Project s page on Sourceforge Category Free Usenet clients Category Usenet clients Category Free software programmed in Python it XPN newsreader ... more details
Refimprove date November 2008 On Usenet , the Usenet Death Penalty or UDP is a final penalty that may be issued against Internet service provider s or single users who produce too much Spamming spam or fail to adhere to Usenet standards. Messages that fall under the jurisdiction of a Usenet Death Penalty will be cancelled. There are three types of Usenet Death Penalty Active with an active UDP, messages that fall under the UDP will be automatically cancelled by third parties or their agents, such as by using cancelbot s. Passive with a passive UDP, messages that fall under the UDP will simply be ignored and will not spread. Partial a partial UDP applies only to a certain subset of newsgroup s, not the entire Usenet newsgroup hierarchy. To be effective, the UDP must be supported by a large number of servers, or the majority of the major transit servers. Otherwise, the articles will propagate throughout the smaller, slower peerings. UDPs are not casual acts. They are announced beforehand, only after the owner of the offending server has been contacted and given several chances to correct the perceived problem. Since the effects on the users of a server under a UDP can be significant, if the users want to post, the impact of a UDP can induce the operators of an offending server to address problems quickly. The first UDP software was written ref name FAQ http www.cybernothing.org faqs net abuse faq.html Net Abuse FAQ ref by Karl Kleinpaste in 1990, though there is disagreement when the term itself was coined the Net Abuse FAQ ref name FAQ claims 1993, but a message ref http www.cpan.org scripts news usenet.death.penalty Rich Salz posting including a perl script used to implement a UDP ref posted on 18 August of that year claims that it was coined years earlier by Eliot Lear . References reflist External links http catb.org esr jargon html U Usenet Death Penalty.html Entry on the Usenet Death Penalty at the Jargon File Category Usenet pl UDP Usenet ... more details
Supernews is a Usenet service provider founded in 1995. Offering consumers and Internet service providers direct access to Usenet, Supernews is one of the oldest Usenet providers today. Service Supernews offers individual users one plan for its Usenet newsgroups service Unlimited GB Usenet Unlimited Speed 1000Mbps and faster Servers in Amsterdam & North America 256 Bit SSL Encryption 800 Days of Binary Retention 30 Connections 24 Hour Customer Support Payment methods Visa, Paypal, Mastercard, Discover, American Express and iDEAL Retention Updates March 18, 2010 to 400 days August 19, 2010 to 500 days January 12, 2011 to 800 days History 1995 Supernews was founded in 1995 by Remarq Communities. 1998 Supernews changed its name to RemarQ Communities in 1998 ref cite web url http www.internetnews.com xSP article.php 45391 Supernews Becomes RemarQ Begins Usenet Promotion.htm title Supernews Becomes RemarQ, Begins Usenet Promotion accessdate 1998 12 7 ref . 2000 Remarq was acquired by Critical Path and changed its name back to Supernews ref cite web url http www.internetnews.com bus news article.php 297051 Critical Path Grabs Messaging Firm RemarQ.htm title Critical Path Grabs Messaging Firm RemarQ accessdate 2000 1 31 ref . 2007 SuperNews expands its network and opens an European Data Center in Amsterdam, connecting to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange AMS IX ref cite web url http goliath.ecnext.com coms2 gi 0199 5735564 SuperNews Expands Network and Opens.html title Supernews Expands Network and Opens European Data Center accessdate 2006 09 06 ref . 2010 Supernews accepts Euro payments via iDEAL Its website is available in English, French, German, and Dutch. References See http en.wikipedia.org wiki Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist External links http www.supernews.com Supernews.com http fr.supernews.com ... Usenet ... more details
Chris Lewis is a Canada Canadian expert on Usenet and Spam electronic spam . He is perhaps best known for his work in writing and running auto cancelers for newsgroup spam, and his help in implementing and avoiding the need for Usenet Death Penalty UDPs . He is employed by Nortel Nortel BNR and helps maintain the Ottawa Carleton Unix Users Group Ocunix http www.ocuug.on.ca . External links http news.com.com 2009 1023 864815.html Spam article that mentions Chris Lewis http www.uni giessen.de faq archiv usenet.site setup msg00000.html Chris Lewis How to become a Usenet site FAQ http www.killfile.org tskirvin faqs spam.html Chris Lewis Spam Thresholds FAQ DEFAULTSORT Lewis, Chris Category Nortel employees Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people compu bio stub ... more details
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