Other newsreaders, if they provide such features at all, offer only limited abilities for customizing how articles are selected, killed, and displayed. NewsRog goes much further, letting you completely customize your environment in ways most other newsreaders cannot dream of.

• On and offline reading and posting.

• Asynchronous design. You can start browsing articles even before the headers are finished loading. You can read articles in one group while batch downloading another group for later offline reading.

• Multiple server support. You can get some groups from a different newsserver than other groups.

• Article prefetching can load the next few articles while you read the first, to avoid the network lag of fetching the following articles.

• Full support for inline 16 and 24 bit truecolor images on supporting CyberGfx screen modes.

• "Single key" group reading, thread smart.

• Full clipboard support.

• Full dynamic searching - search results are updated instantly after each keystroke! You can search through article bodies or any header field.

• Full control over article display. Plug-ins are available to fully control how articles are displayed, including different fonts and colors. A few of the many features are: Smart colorization of quoted text, trimming unnecessarily large blocks of quoted text, hiding signature blocks, colorization of header fields, trimming of large empty regions in an article, clickable URL's (interfaces with most web browsers), ROT13, inline display of binary images, and more. Toggle between hidden and displayed text, or control interfaces for things such as uuencoded data imbedded in articles.

• Newsgroup subsetting and user defined views. Create a selection filter to toggle between the "FS:" or the "WTB:" posts in a marketplace group with a mouseclick. Create another to show all articles in any thread that you have posted to.

• Kill threads now, and in the future! If you don't wish to read a thread, you can have NewsRog kill all future posts to that thread automatically so you don't have to re-kill the thread every time new articles are posted to it.

• Fully indented threading capability. Among the fastest threading of any newsreader on any platform.

• Incredibly powerful article selection and kill capabilities. Most newsreaders limit you to performing pattern matches on header fields, but not NewsRog. You can, for example, define a filter that matches any article that is a followup to an article posted by particular author, for example. Few (if any!) other newsreaders on any platform provide as much kill/select filter power.

• Plug-in artchitecture to support future display, selection, and kill capabilities.

• Sorting articles, groups, etc. by any criteria.

• Full understanding of posting dates normalized by time zone.

• Full control over displayed fields in lists.

• Local caching of headers so they don't have to be re-read from the network later.

• Near instantaneous startup of most groups. No more long waits for headers to load.

• Fully abortable networking IO. Opened a huge group or started to read a 5000 line post by mistake? Just cancel it and keep going.

• Stateless performance. Read some articles, take your machine offline, come back online later, maybe change to a different news server, and keep reading as if nothing happened.

• Network status & statistics Windows. Network status & statistics windows. Track average connection speeds, # of succeeded and failed connections to news servers, etc. Automatically retry connections if they fail.

• Extremely high performance custom string handling for killing articles based on header fields.

• Smart text reflow filter. Can fix "bad" rewraping done by other news software - for example,

  > Some quoted text lines are wrapped
  badly
  > by other software, but NewsRog can
  fix
  > them before displaying the article text.
  

• Incremental article display. The first part of an article is displayed even while the rest loads, so you can start reading before waiting for an entire 500 line article to load over your modem.

• User definable multimedia types and actions.

• Other features too numerous to mention.

• NewsRog is multithreaded. Objects that perform time consuming operations can launch their own task.

• NewsRog uses runtime-binding. This is a powerful method for allowing extensions to the program later on, by anyone, without even recompiling the software.

• NewsRog uses the MUI object library. MUI is by far the most powerful object library available for the Amiga.

• NewsRog uses dynamic loading. Only the features you use get loaded, to save memory.

• Every part of NewsRog is localizable using standard AmigaOS message catalogs.

• NewsRog uses custom written, extremely high performance string functions for article killing and selecting based on header fields. These functions are up to 15 times faster than the compiler's built in string handling. Few other newsreaders can touch NewsRog's speed for matching header fields against fixed strings.