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Also known as: news client, NNTP client
Client software that connects to a news server, lists groups, fetches articles, and posts. Text readers such as slrn or a mail client's news mode present threaded discussion. Binary readers take an NZB file, open many connections at once, pull segments in parallel, and pass the result to repair and unpack stages. The two kinds share a protocol and very little else in the way of interface.
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