[POLL] Newsreaders - 2008 Member Choice

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jmorlan
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[POLL] Newsreaders - 2008 Member Choice

News Clients (formerly Usenet Newsreaders or NNTP Clients) allow access to Usenet newsgroups. Newsgroups (aka UseNet) are organized by hierarchy and include almost every conceivable topic. These message forums or discussion groups reside on thousands of Usenet servers which communicate with each other and with end users via NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol), RFC 0977 and RFC 2980. Most serious discussion takes place within the "Big 8" hierarchies (comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, and talk). Newsgroups encompass everything from some of the best high level discussion forums, to a haven for the worst flaming, kooks, trolls and sockpupets in all the internet. It is also a massive file sharing venue for every possible subject, most of which is posted in the alt.binaries.* hierarchy.

In recent years, the amount of material available on Usenet has grown dramatically and continues to increase. Today, a full Usenet feed is over 2 terabytes per day, most of it from the posting of binaries. Some newsreaders are designed for downloading binaries, others are for reading text and participating in discussions, and some work well for both. With so much material available daily, services have arisen which attempt to index the binary content of Usenet. One of the most popular is NZB (NewZBin) indexing. An NZB indexing service creates a text file which can be read by your NZB aware NNTP client to automatically download the files you want, without downloading and searching all the overviews (headers) in each newsgroup. An excellent introduction to newsgroup binaries for beginners is Slyck's Guide to the Newsgroups.

This poll is about Usenet NNTP clients only. Please do not post RSS Aggregators (sometimes called "NewsReaders") here. They are not related to Usenet or NNTP. If you access Newsgroups via the web, e.g. Google Groups or MailGate, please include that information in your comments. Also if you run a local NNTP proxy server such as Hamster or NewsPlex, please mention it in your comments. Please supply reasons for your choices. Include your personal experiences, pros & cons, any comparisons with other readers, what newsgroup providers or indexing services used, and anything else that you think might be useful.

This year, there is no choice of "other." Last year that choice was used only by people who thought the poll was about RSS Aggregators and it messed up the results. If your choice is not on the list, it is likely your favorite "newsreader" is actually an RSS Aggregator. If you use an unlisted NNTP client please provide a link to the home page if possible.

	What are your favorite NNTP News Clients?

Forte Agent (including Free Agent)	45 (15.5%)
NewsLeecher	34 (11.7%)
GrabIt	30 (10.3%)
NewsBin Pro	28 (9.6%)
None	24 (8.2%)
Outlook Express	19 (6.5%)
Unison (for Macintosh)	17 (5.8%)
Xnews	14 (4.8%)
Thunderbird	12 (4.1%)
NewsRover	8 (2.7%)
SABnzbd	7 (2.4%)
Pan	6 (2%)
40tude-Dialog	5 (1.7%)
MT-NewsWatcher	5 (1.7%)
UsenetGrab	5 (1.7%)
Netscape Communicator	4 (1.3%)
KLibido	3 (1%)
NZB-O-Matic (the original)	3 (1%)
Opera	3 (1%)
Binary Boy	2 (0.6%)
BNR2	2 (0.6%)
Gravity (including Super Gravity)	2 (0.6%)
Hogwasher	2 (0.6%)
NZB-O-Matic Plus (NOMP)	2 (0.6%)
Tin	2 (0.6%)
BNR3	1 (0.3%)
Hellanzb	1 (0.3%)
NewsPro	1 (0.3%)
QuadSucker/News	1 (0.3%)
slrn	1 (0.3%)
Usenet Explorer	1 (0.3%)
NewsMan Pro	0 (0%)
NewsReactor	0 (0%)
NewsShark	0 (0%)
nget	0 (0%)
PowerGrab	0 (0%)
TLNewsreader	0 (0%)
238 participants. 290 total votes. results as pie chart in flash

Special thanks to fourboxers

and lilhurricane

for patiently helping me learn how to create a poll.


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