Pan is a newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity, which attempts to
be pleasant to use for new and advanced users alike. It has all the typical
features found in newsreaders, and also supports offline reading, multiple
connections, and a number of features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
SABnzbd is a cross-platform binary newsreader. It makes downloading
from Usenet easy by automating the whole thing. You give it an NZB
file or an RSS feed, it does the rest. Has a web-browser based UI
and an API for 3rd-party apps. Ideal for servers too.
slrn is an easy to use but powerful NNTP/spool based newsreader. It is
highly customizable, supports scoring, free key bindings, and can be
extended using the SLang macro language. slrn supports SSL and IPv6.
TIN is an easy to use threaded newsreader with NOV/NNTP support.
ubh - the Usenet Binary Harvester - is a GPL'ed Perl console
application which automatically discovers, downloads, and decodes
single-part and multi-part Usenet binaries. Automatically assembles
multi-part binaries. Provides searching via Perl regular expression
syntax. Also provides a pre-selection capability whereby the user
can
interactively choose which binaries to download. Uses a standard
.newsrc file to control which groups and articles to process.
Runs anywhere Perl runs. Tested under Unix-based Perl, Active Perl
on Win32 platforms, and Mac OS X. Requires Net::NNTP and
News::Newsrc
(which itself requires Set::IntSpan), MIME::Parser, MIME::Base64,
IO::Stringy, and MailTools (distribution).
[ This port is maintained by John Holland <john@zoner.org> ]
With XPN you can read/write articles on the Usenet with a good MIME
support (better than some well known newsreaders).
XPN can operate with all the most diffuse charset starting from US-ASCII
to UTF-8. When you edit an article XPN automatically chooses the best
charset, however is always possible to override this choice.
There also other useful features like scoring, filtered views,
random tag-lines, external editor support, one-key navigation,
ROT13, spoiler char.
yencode is an encoder/decoder package for the Usenet yEnc encoding format.
The source code is freely available under the GNU General Public License and
should work on most modern Unix-like operating systems.
Features:
- Full internationalization (multilingual) support provided by GNU gettext.
- Encoder can output single part or multipart encoded archives of any size.
- Smart decoder can handle multiple files, including files specified out of
order or with nonsense file names.
- Included Usenet posting software posts files to Usenet quickly and
easily, including automatic creation of encoded multipart archives and
SFV/CRC checksum files, if desired.
- Optional scan mode: automatically locate and decode single or multipart
encoded archives in specified directories or recursively.
- Supports SFV file creation for multiple-file archives.
- Fully compliant with the current yEnc specifications.
yydecode started life as a decoder for yEnc encoded binaries, which have
recently appeared on Usenet. yydecode works almost identically to the infamous
uudecode program. Version 0.2.8 and onwards contains a superset of uudecode's
functionality, (ie. decodes standard uuencoded files, as well as Base64
[RFC2045] encoded files produced by uuencode) and hence can be used as a
drop-in replacement in all circumstances.
J-Pilot is a desktop organizer application for PalmOS devices. It is meant to
be an alternative to the Palm Desktop for those who run the most popular
Operating Systems in the World, Linux and Unix.
makeztxt is a simple command line program that takes a plain ASCII text file
and compresses it into a zTXT database. makeztxt will remove newline
characters at the end of lines that contain text so that the paragraphs flow
better on the Palm screen.