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 within the program or use 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.