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An internet program designed to read Usenet news. It is often similar to, or integrated with an E-Mail Client. Some news readers are designed with sophisticated composition and threading features to facilitate discussion, and others are designed specifically and solely to upload and download binaries. A non-exhaustive list of examples follows:

1 Cross-Platform
2 *Nix
3 Windows
4 Newsgroup Service Providers
5 Other Tools

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Cross-Platform

Gnus - feature rich newsreader (and more) for the Emacs editor
Mozilla Mail/News - free e-mail and news client.
Pine
Pan - runs on Windows, *Nix, and OS X

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*Nix

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Windows

NomadNews - Free Usenet newsgroup downloader and poster
PowerGrab - Only allows you to download - free
PowerPost - Only allows you to post - free
Newsbin - Commercial
Xnews - Free
Agent - probably the best commercial newsreader.
BNR2 - Free
Microplanet Gravity - freeware
Binary Boy - proprietary Usenet client for Windows. Binary Boy is great for grabbing images, music and movies.
Google Directory for windows usenet clients

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Newsgroup Service Providers

Unlimited newsgroups Commercial newsgroup service provider offering unlimited downloading
Usenet Binaries Offering web-based and NNTP access to 120,000 newsgroups.

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Binary Download Tools

Newsan - WWW / Perl frontend to a newsserver. Meant to grab and post binaries rather than reading or posting text. Supports NZB, PAR2, and many more.
PHP News Reader - WWW / PHP frontend to a newsserver with a more purpose features. Has native NNTPS support. Also supports a broad number of other protocols like POP3/POP3S via modules.
Newsgrab - A CLI tool to download binary multipart encoded messages.
nget - Multi platform CLI tool for binary downloads, with yEnc support and other features. See the nget entry for frontends, related software, etc.
ubh - Usenet Binary Grabber is a multi platform CLI tool for downloading binaries, coded in Perl. Has yEnc support, uuencoded support and uses a MySQL database for config and log purposes.
GrabIt - GUI, free, Windows.
NINAN - "a webapplication to download binary content from news servers. Ninan Supports the NZB file format for easy download and runs on a server or workstation on a OS supporting Java 1.4+"
Klibido - rich-featured binary leecher, for KDE.
Pan - A newsreader that doubles as a grabber. Newer versions support multiserver downloads and a small memory footprint in binaries groups. free Windows X11
Newsbin - A very known and popular binary leacher with loads of features. Runs through WINE and Linux port is in the make.

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Binary Upload Tools

Easy Post - free, Windows Usenet yEnc binary poster.
Newspost - CLI usenet binary autoposter *NIX.
Gnewspost - GUI, GNOME usenet binary poster.
Knewspost - GUI, KDE usenet binary poster.
Binarieposter - GUI, KDE usenet binary poster.

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NZB specific

KNZB - For KDE.
Nzbperl - NZB support (and only that) in Perl. Seems to actually work.
hellanzb - NZB downloader and post processor (does both simultaneously).
NZBget - A bit buggy, no longer developed.
NZB Leecher - free, open-source, Windows application that searches NewzMonster, alt.binaries.nl, usenetjunkie, newzBin, Binnews and Eweka newsgroups indexing sites to create .nzb files.