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Xnews

Xnews is a free newsreader written by Luu Tran. It is my favourite newsreader, but the wealth of options mean it can be a bit daunting to a newbie. I've put together these pages to provide some extra information that may be useful for new users; additionally, Luu's manual is also available. I'm David Breach by the way :-)

Whats New?/History

*NEW* More added to FAQ page - icon description, downloading binaries, the '2Gb limit' etc.

Follow the links below to go through some of the main Xnews setup details, as well as getting the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

Servers setup - Basic

Servers setup - Custom

Identities

Fonts and Colours

Display

Files

Storage

Compose

Misc

Other Useful Information/FAQ - Lots of useful stuff on this page; FAQ's etc.

Additional setup using *.ini files - details on how to further customise Xnews

How to setup a secure news-server connection (SSL)

Step-by-step guide to adding NewsProxy filtering support to Hamster (prevents download of Hipcrime spam-floods)

For more Xnews related goodies also check out DC's page here: http://www.geocities.com/radar_identified/newsgroups/.

Ralf Hasse has a great site (http://www.seegras.de/xnews) which explains the function of Xnews's menus, which may be useful if you're new to reading news with Xnews.


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Last updated ... March 1, 2002