“List of Usenet newsreaders”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system using the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called newsreaders are used to read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more newsgroups. This is a list of such newsreaders.

Types of clients

Text newsreader – designed primarily for reading/posting text posts; unable to download binary attachments (example: non-GUI clients such as slrn)

Traditional newsreader – text-capable newsreader which can also handle binary attachments, although not as efficiently as more specialized clients (example: Forté Agent and Xnews)

Binary grabber/plucker – designed specifically for easy and efficient downloading of multi-part binary post attachments; limited or nonexistent reading/posting ability. These generally offer multi-server and multi-connection support. Most now support NZBs, and several either support or plan to support automatic Par2 processing (example: GrabIt, NewsBin, NewsLeecher). Some additionally support video and audio streaming (example: BinTube).

NZB downloader – binary grabber client without header support – cannot browse groups or read/post text messages; can only load 3rd-party NZBs to download binary post attachments (example: NZB-O-Matic, SABnzbd, Ninan, URD). Some incorporate an interface for accessing selected NZB search websites.

Binary posting client – designed specifically and exclusively for posting multi-part binary files (example: PowerPost, Sharkpost)

Combination client – Jack-of-all-trades supporting text reading/posting, as well as multi-segment binary downloading and automatic Par2 processing (example: Usenet Explorer)

Graphical

Proprietary software

Commercial software

BinTube

Forté Agent

Lotus Notes

Netscape Communicator (superseded by Mozilla)

NewsBin

NewsLeecher

Novell GroupWise

Windows Mail – replaced Outlook Express for Windows Vista – terminated by Windows 7

Windows Live Mail – replaced Outlook Express for Windows XP; optional for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7

Thoth – Mac OS X Discontinued

Turnpike

Unison – for OS X, discontinued but is also a free download.

Usenet Explorer

Freeware

GrabIt

MT NewsWatcher – Mac OS X Universal Binary

Opera Mail

Xnews – MS Windows

Shareware

Unison – Mac OS X (discontinued)

Free/Open-source software

Argo (discontinued)

Arachne (with aranews.apm package) (discontinued)

Arena (discontinued)

Beonex Communicator (discontinued)

Claws Mail is a GTK+-based email and news client for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Windows.

Gnus, is an email and news client, and feed reader for GNU Emacs.

KNode (may be embedded in Kontact) (discontinued^[1])

Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups (discontinued, renamed to SeaMonkey)

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source^[2] cross-platform email client, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

Pan a full-featured text and binary NNTP and Usenet client for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and Windows.

SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups

Spotnet

Sylpheed

X Python Newsreader

Text-based

Agora (email server, discontinued)

Alpine

Gnus (Emacs based)

Line Mode Browser

Lynx (has limited Usenet support)

Mutt (3rd party patches)

Pine

Slrn

tin

Web-based

Google Groups

1. ^http://www.aegiap.eu/kdeblog/2015/08/kdepim-5-0/
2. ^{{cite web |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/118268/ |title=Debian and Mozilla – a study in trademarks |work=LWN.net |accessdate=September 18, 2010}}