Xnews
Not to be confused with the xnews X11 server, or the Pakistan student web site X-News.
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| Developer(s) | Luu Tran |
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| Stable release | 5.04.25 / April 25, 2002 |
| Preview release | 2009.05.01 / May 1, 2009 |
| Written in | Object Pascal using Embarcadero Delphi |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | News client |
| License | proprietary Freeware |
| Website | xnews.newsguy.com |
Xnews is a freeware Usenet newsreader created by Luu Tran.[1] It is written in Delphi, and it is 100% GNKSA 2.0 compliant. Some of its features were inspired by the program NewsXpress.
Tran says that he designs the Xnews interface and features for himself only, reflecting his "preferences, habits, and sensibility."
Xnews does not support UTF-8 (or any other character set encoding), making it difficult or even impossible to use for reading or posting articles in languages other than English. It is, however, possible to run Xnews with "Mime-proxy" to work around this issue.
Xnews does not natively support SSL, but can be added using "Stunnel".
Questions and discussion about Xnews can be found in the Usenet group news.software.readers
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- Slyck's Quick Guide To Xnews
- The late Blinky the Shark's "tips and things page" for Xnews