Newsreaders

newsreaders are programs used to access and read the news. They usually fetch the news from the newsserver.

All newsreaders are capable to perform at least the following tasks:

• Read an article.
• Post a follow-up article (i.e. post an article within the same thread/subject).
• Reply to the author of the article.
• Save an article.
• Print an article.
• Mail an article.
• Subscribe/Unsubscribe to newgroup(s).

newsreaders use the configuration file

.newsrc

That file may be viewed/edited with any text editor to find out which newsgroup is available to be read on that system.

• -tin: threaded Internet newsreader.
• -xrn: X-based news reader.