freebsd-ports/news/knews/pkg-descr

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Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface that uses NNTP
to get news. Threads are displayed in a graphical tree. Full support for
reading MIME articles, except message/partial.
o Background threading of newsgroups
o Doesn't have to read the active file or group descriptions on startup
o A mechansim for reading the spool directory
o Kill file support with color blobs
o Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list
o XPAT searching
o Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles
o Lots of action procedures that can be tied to keys.
o Supports multiple nntp servers
o Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order
o Uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases
o article text widget is able to display wide-character fonts
o article tree has a 'vertical' layout by popular demand
o experimental: Decoding of 16 bit encoded charsets
o Mailcap file support
o save thread data between sessions
o article prefetch cache and 'trailing' cache
o Less restrictive locking of the interface
o Message-id lookup of articles