Binary package “xpn” in ubuntu trusty
graphical newsreader written in Python and GTK+ toolkit
With XPN you can read/write articles on the Usenet with a good MIME support.
XPN can operate with all the most widespread charsets, starting from US-ASCII
to UTF-8. When you edit an article XPN automatically chooses the best
charset, however is always possible to override this choice.
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There also other useful features like scoring, filtered views, random
tag-lines, external editor support, one-key navigation, ROT13, spoiler
char, ...