XPN is a simple newsreader written in python using the Gtk+ toolkit for the GUI. It is an on-line newsreader so you have to connect to the internet if you don't have a local news-server on your PC.
XPN has a partial support for MIME standards (you can read only single part quoted-printable/8bit/7bit encoded articles), so please use it carefully and on text-only newsgroups.
Simply extract the tarball. A directory named "xpn-0.0.5" will be created. In this directory you will find the executable file "xpn.py" that launchs the newsreader.
Launch "xpn.py" file. The first time you have to configure the program. Follow the instructions and compile the whole fields. Please chose a font with charset "iso-8859-1" or "iso-8859-15". And chose the output_charset that you prefer.
Now you can download the newsgroups list from the server. Open the newsgroups windows with the first button on the toolbar (or the voice in the file menu).
Download the list and subscribe the newsgroups. Now you can read them, on the
first window. Clicking on the newsgroup name makes threads from the unreaded
articles. Clicking on the article you will read it.
You are also able to navigate with the keyboad. The key "n" will move to the
next article ("b" to the previous and "u" to the parent) and "g" to the next
group.
Pressing "p" you can post a new article to the selected group, while pressing "f" you can post a followup to the article selected.