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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:
+
+ 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.