The "Usenet Software" posting referenced above goes into quite a bit
of detail about the software that is available.  There are three
components in the software at a Usenet site: (a) the software that
transports the news (usually using either UUCP or NNTP), (b) the
software that stores the news on the local disks, expires old
articles, etc., and (c) the news-readers for looking at the news.

For example, if you're a UNIX site on the Internet and you're going
to be getting your news feed over the Internet, then you are probably
going to want to get one of the news transport packages mentioned in
the "Usenet Software" posting (e.g., INN or C News + NNTP), as well as
one or more of the UNIX news readers mentioned there.

Since you are probably going to be exchanging mail as well as news, and
the mail software that is shipped with the OS you are using might not
be powerful enough to handle mail exchanging with the rest of the
Usenet, you might want to obtain new mail software as well.  There are
several packages you might choose you use.  Discussion of them is
beyond the scope of this document; the books referenced below will
probably provide some useful information in this area.  Furthermore, if
you are a UNIX site, the posting by Chris Lewis "UNIX Email Software
Survey FAQ [3 parts]", in news.admin.misc, comp.mail.misc and news.answers
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/setup/) provides a
good introduction to the UNIX mail software that's out there.  Finally,
Eric S. Johansson <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us>'s "FAQ - UUCP Mail, News
| and Gateway Software for PCs and MACs" posting will help you to find
out more about the UUCP software that is available to you if you wish
to run it on a PC or Macintosh computer.
| [I understand that this FAQ is no longer separately posted, but see
| the comp.os.msdos.mail-news FAQ]

The basic idea is to go read the "Usenet Software" posting, and then
to work from there.

Europeans can ask their national backbone site, which will usually
either be a software archive or be closely associated with one.
UKNET, for example, provides an information pack explaining what is
needed and where (and how) to get it.

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