Overview
What is Mabry News Control?
is a Visual Basic custom control and ActiveX (OCX) control that provides easy access to Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) servers.
In depth
A closer look at Mabry News Control
News Control complies with RFC977, and includes support for popular extensions used by nearly all existing news servers. News also supports the user authentication protocol used by many news servers, especially those of commercial news providers. Mabry’s News control is unique in providing access to non-standard server commands through a Read/Write methods. Both RFC977 and RFC850, which are included in the NEWS package, are mandatory reading before attempting to undertake a serious News client program. You should read these before writing any code at all! The News control comes with a sample program, written in VB, showing how to use most of the features of News.
Verdict
Should you download Mabry News Control?
Mabry News Control runs on
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Shareware
license
— the installer is 307 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Visual Basic and .NET.
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At a glance
Mabry News Control specifications
- Last updated
- Mar 12, 2025
- License
- Shareware
- Operating system
- Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Windows 10/11
- File size
- 307 KB
- Price
- Free
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- 588
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