freebsd-ports/news/knews/pkg-descr

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