The top five binary readers from the 6-21 thru 7-13 2005
Poll are as follows (in order of vote count from highest to lowest):
Agent is a stand-alone newsreader that runs on the Windows platform. A full list of features, including comparisons of the paid and free versions available, can be found
here.
Interestingly enough,
Other topped the votes, with most using Outlook Express or
Thunderbird to read their text based newsgroups.
Q: What are newsgroups?
A: In a nutshell, think of newsgroups as basically text based forums or message boards on usenet. There are literally thousands of them covering every topic imaginable.
Q: I was in some newsgroup and opened a message and all I could see was gibberish, was it some kind of secret code?
A: Chances are you opened up a binary message. Newsgroups are posted text messages, someone figured out a way to encode binary files into text and posted it to the newsgroup. In order to download the binary file you would need a reader that can decode the message.
Q: Where can I find more information on newsgroups?
