News-reading Software Available on the Internet

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/Usenet_Software:_History_and_Sources

Dedicated News Reading Software | top

Recommended for beginners

DOS              Trumpet   
MS-Windows       WinTrumpet
UNIX             Tin
Mac              NewsWatcher

News Readers Based on Operating System | top

Name    Anonymous ftp or World Wide Web site                Contact Person

UNIX
FNEWS         
   ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/vendors/emagic/fnews               chrisp@marc.cri.nz
RN            
   http://www.academ.com/academ/rn.html                     Stan Barber (sob@academ.com)
trn           
   ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/readers/trn
nn            
   ftp://uniwa.uwa.edu.au/pub/nn directory                  Peter Wemm (peter@dialix.oz.au)
tin           
   ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/news/newsreader/unix/tin    Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de)


UNIX X11
xrn           
   ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xrn 
xvnews        
   ftp://ftp.twi.tudelft.nl/pub/news

VMS
FNEWS         
   ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/vendors/emagic/fnews               chrisp@marc.cri.nz
VNEWS         

Mac
HyperNews     
   ftp://ftp.apple.com 
NewsWatcher   
   ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/newswatcher                   John Norstad (j-norstad@nwu.edu)
Nuntius       
   ftp://ftp.cit.cornell.edu/pub/mac/comm/test              Peter Speck (speck@ruc.dk)

OS/2
tin           
   ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/news/newsreader/os2/tin     Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de)


DOS
trumpet       
   ftp://ftp.trumpet.com.au/dostrump/ 
   http://www.trumpet.com.au
minuet (total internet package)
   ftp://minuet.micro.umn.edu/pub/minuet/latest 

MS-Windows
wintrumpet    
   ftp://ftp.trumpet.com.au/wintrump/
   http://www.trumpet.com.au
WinVN         
   ftp://ftp.ksc.nasa.gov/pub/win3/winvn
WinQVT
        
NewsXpress

More DOS, Windows and OS/2 Newsreaders can be found in the in comp.os.msdos.mail-news FAQ

AmigaDOS
vn port       
   ftp://ftp.uu.net/systems/amiga/dillon 

Web Browsers with In-built News Readers | top

UNIX
Netscape 2.01 
   http://www.netscape.com

DOS
Netscape 2.01 
   http://www.netscape.com

Mac
Netscape 2.01 
   http://www.netscape.com

Email Software with In-built News Readers | top

UNIX
Pine          
   ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/                       pine@cac.washington.edu

DOS
Pine          
   ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/                       pine@cac.washington.edu

MS-Windows
Pine          
   ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/                       pine@cac.washington.edu