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+True threading, with a graphical tree for the threads. 
+Full support for reading MIME articles, except message/partial. 
+Some options that will improve things for people reading over slow lines: 
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+  o Background threading of groups in advance. 
+  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. Articles can be 
+	- marked read (killed), or 
+	- marked with color blobs, based on regular expressions. 
+  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.