NEWS READER SOFTWARE

Although we do not offer Technical Support for the following News Clients, they are totally compatible with our server system. If you need assistance in setting up these clients, each has an excellent Support Team and/or Tutorials ready to help you if you have trouble.

News Rover

Newsrover

News Rover excels at sifting through multiple servers, multiple newsgroups, and all the ensuing messages, then downloading only those that match the criteria you set. 

You can program News Rover to dial up on a schedule you set, winnow Usenet, deposit messages and even binary files onto your drive, then log off.
MT Newswatcher

MT-NewsWatcher is a Usenet news client for the Macintosh.

MT-NewsWatcher allows you to quickly and efficiently target the articles you wish to read, with sophisticated yet easy to use filtering, searching and sorting features. The program also makes viewing and saving binaries from newsgroups easy, and works transparently across multiple news servers.

XNews

XNews features Plonk files, quick filter score files for even more advance filtering, support for multiple servers/identities, binaries handling Optional Header and article caching; plus folders for permanent archival.
Ozum

Click to Go There

Ozum is a perfect tool for any user. It makes work with the Usenet as easy as "drag-n-drop" for novice users, while more advanced users will enjoy the power and control it offers. Ozum gives you a way to preview (or listen to) a part of a large video/audio file before downloading and assembling the file. You can "sample" large files before you download them and save hours that you would spend on downloading files that you don't really want.
Forte Agent

Forte' Agent is a feature-packed commercial news and e-mail program. If you are looking for all the bells and whistles in a combined news and email client, then Forte' Agent is the answer.
Free Agent

A freeware version of Forte' Agent with an easy to use interface with auto-post, auto-decode of binaries, and exceptional subscribed group organization.
Auto Pix

AutoPix is a fully automated NNTP downloader/decoder/previewer client for Windows 9X/ME.

It will download pictures from the subscribed newsgroups and place them in the directory of your choice. Simply set up the news server name, pick some newsgroups and AutoPix does the rest.
Binary Boy

Binary Boy features a scheduling option that you can configure easily to dial your ISP, collect all attachments matching your search criteria and hang up, anytime, day or night.

Has AND, OR and NOT search and filter features. Search and filter globally or create search strings for each individual newsgroup. Handles UUencoded multiparts and MIME base-64.
Foto Vac

 FotoVac will scan through selected newsgroups and will download all the images that it finds in each group.

Images are displayed as thumbnails. To view a full size version of a downloaded image, simply click on the selected image. FotoVac supports all of the major image formats, including .bmp, .jpg and .png and can check for duplicate images.
NewsBinPro

NewsBinPro automatically downloads and decodes any binary posted to Usenet, including multipart posts. 

Feed it a list of newsgroups, and it will run until every JPG, MP3, MPG, AVI or ZIP is downloaded. A manual mode allows you to pick and choose before you download. NewsBinPro also has extensive filtering options, including special spam filters.
News Reactor

NewsReactor will allow you to download files from your favorite newsgroups, including MPGs, MP3s and AVIs.

The News Reactor interface is very easy to use, and it includes great features that make it stand apart from most news readers.
Plukit

Pluckit is an automated Windows program designed to easily and automatically retrieve pictures, fonts, games, zips, and other binary attachments.

 Built in viewers with a slide show, spam elimination and search features make Pluckit 3 easy to use. The only drawback of Pluckit 3 is that it only allows 15 downloads per session.