![]() When it comes to Usenet, Emacs has Gnus, the official GNU newsreader. No matter what you want to do with a computer, the “operating system that also includes a half-decent editor”, as somebody once called it, has a major or minor mode for it. The programs must be developed mainly, if not exclusively, to deal with Usenet Newsgroups, and the application must be in active development, in order for it to run happily on a modern distro. In this Roundup we present six clients chosen according to two simple criteria. Real Usenet geeks have to deal with multi-part articles they want to read stuff from a newsgroup while also downloading files from several other newsgroups, on the same or on different servers. A Usenet client also needs features that are unnecessary in the email world. ![]() ![]() In order to get the most from Usenet, you need a specialised program that must be (at least) a hybrid between an email client and a file download manager. ![]()
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