Xnews (ver 2009.05.01) Abandoned Freeware Xnews is a Usenet newsreader for Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP. There is -no- installer. Just unzip into a directory on you hard drive, and create a shortcut to "XNEWS.EXE". Xnews will create all necessary folders in this directory. Xnews is 100% GNKSA 2.0 (Good Net Keeping Seal of Approval) compliant. It comes with many useful features, including Plonk file (aka bozo bin), quick and advanced filtering options, support for multiple servers, remappable keyboard and more. Subscribed newsgroups can be organized in folders for easy navigation. Xnews also offers header caching, permanent archival of messages and support for binary attachments.