NewsParrot allows you to search for free news servers, test them for speed, the number of Newsgroups and the artical density, before enabling the user to browse the results in a default news reader.. Newsparrot enables you to search for new open news servers, with a few servers added to the program you can find more news servers, this process also tests the servers to see if these are accessible. This multi-threaded program generates a list of tested servers, which can be saved. When you select a specific newsgroup of interest, the program connects to a requested server to import the selected newsgroup article headers.

Newsparrotv4 Freeware was released by james hyland on Thursday 16 September 2004.
Newsparrotv4 will run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.