Developer(s) Luu Tran Type News client | Operating system | |
Stable release 5.04.25 / 25 April 2002; 14 years ago (2002-04-25) Preview release 2009.05.01 / 1 May 2009; 7 years ago (2009-05-01) Written in Object Pascal using Embarcadero Delphi | ||
Xnews is a freeware Usenet newsreader created by Luu Tran. It is written in Delphi, and it is 100% GNKSA 2.0 compliant. Some of its features were inspired by the program NewsXpress.
Tran says that he designs the Xnews interface and features for himself only, reflecting his "preferences, habits, and sensibility."
Xnews does not support UTF-8 (or any other character set encoding), making it difficult or even impossible to use for reading or posting articles in languages other than English. It is, however, possible to run Xnews with "Mime-proxy" to work around this issue.
Xnews does not natively support SSL, but can be added using "Stunnel".
Questions and discussion about Xnews can be found in the Usenet group news.software.readers
References
Xnews Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA