NewsBin
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Newsbin Pro is a news client
used on the Windows
operating system. Written in 1995 and distributed as Shareware
, it was one of the first news clients dedicated to downloading binary content from Usenet
. Newsbin has been under constant development and has been an early adopter to changes in Usenet such as supporting yEnc
encoding, parchive
s, the NZB
file format, and the XFeatures NNTP extension for implementing compressed headers.
Newsbin Pro is now in its Version 6 series and has an active Newsbin User Community that contributes to defining new features and helping other users.
News client
A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet . Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol , to download articles and post new articles...
used on the Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
operating system. Written in 1995 and distributed as Shareware
Shareware
The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...
, it was one of the first news clients dedicated to downloading binary content from Usenet
Usenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
. Newsbin has been under constant development and has been an early adopter to changes in Usenet such as supporting yEnc
YEnc
yEnc is a binary-to-text encoding scheme for transferring binary files in messages on Usenet or via e-mail. It reduces the overhead over previous US-ASCII-based encoding methods by using an 8-bit Extended ASCII encoding method...
encoding, parchive
Parchive
Parchive is an open source software project that emerged in 2001 to develop a parity file format, as conceived by Tobias Rieper and Stefan Wehlus...
s, the NZB
NZB
NZB is an XML-based file format for retrieving posts from NNTP servers. The format was conceived by the developers of the Newzbin.com Usenet Index. NZB is effective when used with search-capable websites. These websites create NZB files out of what is needed to be downloaded...
file format, and the XFeatures NNTP extension for implementing compressed headers.
Newsbin Pro is now in its Version 6 series and has an active Newsbin User Community that contributes to defining new features and helping other users.