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Hogwasher 2.6.1
FAT
Shareware
Hogwasher is a Usenet news reader. Its myriad features include both online and offline news reading, internal decoding, built-in JPEG viewing, filtering, scheduled connections, and more. This download is a 30 day functional demo application.

MacSOUP 2.7
FAT
Shareware
MacSOUP is an offline reader for news and mail (it can be used for news only, if you prefer Eudora for mail). It works either with a Unix shell account (in conjunction with uqwk), or with a TCP/IP connection (MacTCP or Open Transport). Features: fetches only article headers in a first pass; lets you select which articles you actually want to download; true references-based threading, with a graphical display of the thread tree; kill file (with regular expressions); and multiple mailboxes with mail filters.

MacSOUP 2.7
OS X
Shareware
MacSOUP is an offline reader for news and mail (it can be used for news only, if you prefer Eudora for mail). It works either with a Unix shell account (in conjunction with uqwk), or with a TCP/IP connection (MacTCP or Open Transport). Features: fetches only article headers in a first pass; lets you select which articles you actually want to download; true references-based threading, with a graphical display of the thread tree; kill file (with regular expressions); and multiple mailboxes with mail filters.

YA-NewsWatcher 5.0.1
PPC
MacOS 8.5 or later
Freeware
Otherwise known as Yet-Another Newswatcher, this USENET Newsreader is based off of the original, freeware source code of John Norstad's NewsWatcher browser, but with many useful additions. It goes way beyond the original NewsWatcher with a vastly different user interface, many more preferences, automatic FAQ retrieval, and hundreds of other small features too numerous to mention here. YA-NW is absolutely unparalleled in its feature set and customizability, at least on the Macintosh platform, and is quite comprable to Forte's Agent, and Free Agent on the Windows platform.

YA-AutoPoster 1.6
FAT
MacOS 8.0 or later
Shareware
YA-AutoPoster is an AppleScript driven utility, that works in conjunction with
YA-NewsWatcher to automate the process of binary posting. It automatically creates your message files, complete with binary attachments, and then, using YA-NewsWatcher, sends them to a usenet server. All that need be done is to put the desired files to be posted in a folder, open an internet connection, then launch YA-AutoPoster. When YA-NewsWatcher starts posting the first file, YA-AutoPoster will quit, allowing other tasks to be done. Requires YA-NewsWatcher 3.1.8 or higher, and also AppleScript 1.1 or higher.

YA-NewsWatcher 3.1.8
PPC
MacOS 7.5 to 8.0
Freeware
Otherwise known as Yet-Another Newswatcher, this USENET Newsreader is based off of the original, freeware source code of John Norstad's NewsWatcher browser, but with many useful additions. It goes way beyond the original NewsWatcher with a vastly different user interface, many more preferences, automatic FAQ retrieval, and hundreds of other small features too numerous to mention here. YA-NW is absolutely unparalleled in its feature set and customizability, at least on the Macintosh platform, and is quite comprable to Forte's Agent, and Free Agent on the Windows platform.

YA-NewsWatcher 3.1.8
680X0
Freeware
Otherwise known as Yet-Another Newswatcher, this USENET Newsreader is based off of the original, freeware source code of John Norstad's NewsWatcher browser, but with many useful additions. It goes way beyond the original NewsWatcher with a vastly different user interface, many more preferences, automatic FAQ retrieval, and hundreds of other small features too numerous to mention here. YA-NW is absolutely unparalleled in its feature set and customizability, at least on the Macintosh platform, and is quite comprable to Forte's Agent, and Free Agent on the Windows platform.
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