This version is much improved compared to earlier versions which were not very useable at all. It seems quite fast and unlike the other review, it loaded the entire group list from my ISP's news server. Subscription is very simple. The application seems stable and doesn't crash. It appears to thread reasonably well by subject.

The interface, like all multi-paned style applications, feels claustrophobic to me. That's not specific to Xnntp. It would help if messages could be set to pop up in a new window.

There seems to be no way to mark all the articles in the newsgroup as read, so that you don't have to see them again the next time you read the newsgroup.

It would be nice to have the standard Unix-style keyboard shortcuts for paging through articles and through group lists (e.g., space bar to page down or move through the article list). NewsWatcher derivatives (e.g. MT-NW) have implemented this nicely, for example.

The developer has made very good progress with this version, although in my opinion it is not yet ready for daily use. As a result I will check "no" in terms of recommending it, but I fully expect it to be a very good newsreader eventually based on the progress I've seen.