Free Text Newsservers

[kyonshi]

Agency News http://www.news.bbs.nz
Ausics https://newsgroups.ausics.net/ (Australia Only)
Blue World Hosting https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com
Chmurka http://news.chmurka.net
CSIPH http://csiph.com
DOTSRC https://dotsrc.org/usenet/
Eternal September https://www.eternal-september.org
Gegeweb https://news.gegeweb.org
Hispagatos https://news.hispagatos.org
I2PN2 https://i2pn2.org
NNTP4 https://news.nntp4.net
NovaBBS https://novabbs.org
open News Network http://open-news-network.org
Paganini nntp://paganini.bofh.team
Pasdenom https://pasdenom.info/news.html
Solani https://solani.org
usenet.ovh http://usenet.ovh

[whosbest54]

In article <uodlai$33dp5$3...@dont-email.me>, gmk...@gmail.com says...

Thank you for this. I checked most of these; here's an update:

Agency News (No posting) http://www.news.bbs.nz

Ausics https://newsgroups.ausics.net/ (Australia Only)

Blue World Hosting (email to request account to post) https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com
Chmurka (No posting) http://news.chmurka.net
CSIPH (Posting with prior contact permission) http://csiph.com
DOTSRC (Free posting send empty email) https://dotsrc.org/usenet/
Eternal September (Posting with registration) https://www.eternal-september.org
Gegeweb (Limited local groups only) https://news.gegeweb.org
Hispagatos (Contact required for account) https://news.hispagatos.org
I2PN2 (Request account to read and post) https://i2pn2.org
NovaBBS (Request account to read and post) https://news.novabbs.org/common/connect.php
open News Network (Register to read and post) http://open-news-network.org
Paganini nntp://paganini.bofh.team
Solani (Request account to read and post) https://solani.org
usenet.ovh (email to request account to post) http://usenet.ovh

Corrections/updates welcome.

whosbest54
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[kyonshi]

according to the Polish text on Chmurka it is open for posting with an
account. But I notice the form for registration is Polish only and the
English text is omitting the information on how to register.

[Computer Nerd Kev]

whosbest54 <whosb...@nospam.yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> Agency News (No posting) http://www.news.bbs.nz
> Ausics https://newsgroups.ausics.net/ (Australia Only)
> Blue World Hosting (email to request account to post) https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com
> Chmurka (No posting) http://news.chmurka.net
> CSIPH (Posting with prior contact permission) http://csiph.com
> DOTSRC (Free posting send empty email) https://dotsrc.org/usenet/
> Eternal September (Posting with registration) https://www.eternal-september.org
> Gegeweb (Limited local groups only) https://news.gegeweb.org
> Hispagatos (Contact required for account) https://news.hispagatos.org
> I2PN2 (Request account to read and post) https://i2pn2.org
> NovaBBS (Request account to read and post) https://news.novabbs.org/common/connect.php
> open News Network (Register to read and post) http://open-news-network.org
> Paganini nntp://paganini.bofh.team
> Solani (Request account to read and post) https://solani.org
> usenet.ovh (email to request account to post) http://usenet.ovh
>
> Corrections/updates welcome.

Agency News:
People do seem to post from this. I expect you need to get an
account on their BBS and use that to log into the NNTP server for
posting, based on what that page says.

DOTSRC:
According to that page, since 2005 this server only carries a
sub-set of groups related to open-source software.

There's also:

Netfront:
freenews.netfront.net
news.netfront.net
nntp.idecnet.com
Although this server claims that posting is enabled for
unauthenticated log-ins, I don't think it works.

Neodome:
news.neodome.net
Read-only since 2021:
http://al.howardknight.net/?ID=162342926200

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[D]

On 21 Jan 2024 07:03:16 +1000, n...@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
>
snip

>
>Neodome:
>news.neodome.net
>Read-only since 2021:
>http://al.howardknight.net/?ID=162342926200

good reference, matches raw message on news server (n...)
>Path: n...!injection-bsd1!not-for-mail
>From: Neodome Admin <ad...@neodome.net>
>Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,news.admin.peering
>Subject: Re: Ongoing flood from Neodome
>Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:54:38 -0000 (UTC)
>Organization: Neodome
>Message-ID: <s9tcjt$2i57$1...@neodome.net>
>References: <1pa80y9.1ntv431sf1rnN%snip...@gmail.com>
> <alpine.OSX.2.20.2...@mako.ath.cx>
> <s9c1gu$29s7$3...@neodome.net>
> <s9ddnf$q53$2...@dont-email.me>
> <s9fsc2$tk6$1...@neodome.net>
> <alpine.OSX.2.20.2...@mako.ath.cx>
> <s9pldp$t8j$1...@neodome.net>
> <alpine.OSX.2.20.2...@mako.ath.cx>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:54:38 -0000 (UTC)
>Injection-Info: neodome.net; mail-complaints-to="ab...@neodome.net"
>User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch)
>Cancel-Lock: sha1:4GeqIBIjul/aDqXBK5DiidftyqE=
>X-Received-Bytes: 1929
>Xref: n... news.admin.net-abuse.usenet:6879 news.admin.peering:1181
>
>David Ritz <dr...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> news.neodome.net is killfiled in two out of five or six news clients I
>> use, but is not for this user agent. In any case, user agents, for
>> which killfiles operate, still require downloading all of the overview
>> headers, at a bare minimum. Downloading thousands of XOVER headers of
>> noise is a waste of my resources and time. That you seem to think
>> little of it, suggests you are not a particularly good Usenet
>> neighbor.
>>
>> Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept.
>
>I'm not going to comment on everything you said, at least not now.
>
>However, I would like to say that since so many people are determined that
>it's a DoS attack, I have no choice but to admit that my idea of what
>Usenet is is apparently quite different than what most people think.
>
>I'll turn the posting off, for now partially, and then completely.
>
>--
>Neodome
[end quote]

(nntp news.neodome.net and gateway mail...@neodome.net still up & running)

[Indira]

D wrote:

> (nntp news.neodome.net and gateway mail...@neodome.net still up & running)

Is there a tutorial somewhere for Google Groups refugees on how to set that
up on Windows to post to a.f.n using that mail...@neodome.net gateway?

[D]

over the years i've used news.neodome.net and many other free newsservers,
e.g. news.mixmin.net, news.dizum.net, etc. for read-only downloading, and
remailers for posting to newsgroups (i've never used nyms or social media;
mail...@neodome.net, mail...@dizum.com are currently working gateways)

there are dozens of free nntp news servers, and about twenty-five public
remailers (11 mix w/ 5 exits, 14 yamn w/6 exits) which usually work well
and are very popular with innumerable users, often for posting to usenet
newsgroups such as this one; used judiciously with tor connections makes
for the safest and easiest way to use any newsreader clients, free agent,
40tude dialog, mesnews etc. i've been using remailers exclusively since
1998; currently using omnimix, tor browser, 40tude dialog and free agent;
40tude dialog is so much easier to setup and use than modern newsreaders
(e.g. thunderbird) ... also, google groups users are accustomed to a web
browser client; rocksolid is becoming especially popular because it runs
in any web browser, it's tor-friendly, user-friendly, and it works great:
https://news.novabbs.org/computers/thread.php?group=alt.free.newsservers

using Omnimix w/Tor Browser simply to post via remailers to newsgroups,
set "SOCKS Version 5" in the Omnimix "StateExt" tab to update remailer
stats, and "News" tab to connect and download from the newsgroups host;
"Anon SMTP hosts" in "AnoMailS" tab is where you can add, edit, remove,
restore relays list; with Tor Browser always running in the background
(although that may not be as secure as using the built-in Omnimix Tor),
it's easy to browse the web more securely while at the same time using
Omnimix for whatever you might be using it for; this works wonderfully
in Windows 7 with Omnimix > Tor tab > Cfg > Port = 9054 (default), and
in Windows 11 with Omnimix > Tor tab > Cfg > Port = 9150; also, in the
Omnimix "Anon" tab be sure "Use 'Anon Mail S' Host" is checked/enabled:

OmniMix 2.7.2 (2023-12-26)
https://danner-net.de/om.htm
https://danner-net.de/omom/index.htm <= Omnimix Tutorial
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
https://danner-net.de/om/OmniMix_2.7.2_Uno_Setup.exe
(OmniMix_2.7.2_Uno_Setup.exe / 29.7 MB), installed . . .
(C:\Program Files (x86)\OmniMix / 182 MB / 625 Files, 41 Folders)
https://danner-net.de/om/History.txt
>...
>2.7.0 Bugfix: A concurrent access to the OmniNym .ini file while closing the Nym
> Configurator led to an application crash.
> At the Nym Configurator m...@neodome.net added to the nym reply mail2news
> default list.
>2.7.1 Bugfix: Minor popup hint issues fixed.
> Irrelevant Cypherpunk statistics file 'rlist.txt' no longer downloaded.
> Tor updated to a still customized version 0.4.9.0-alpha-dev
> (git-d07810a3c96b7c06).
>2.7.2 Main and Nym Configurator window now centered on first start.
> Nym server keys (nym.mixmin.net / nymph.paranoici.org) updated.
[end quote]

Tor Browser 13.0.8 (2023-12-21)
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1308/
>New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.8 (Desktop)
>by richard | December 21, 2023
>Tor Browser 13.0.8 is now available from the Tor Browser download page
>https://www.torproject.org/download/
(https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/13.0.8/tor-browser-windows-x86_64-portable-13.0.8.exe)
(tor-browser-windows-x86_64-portable-13.0.8.exe / 96.9 MB), installed . . .
(\Tor Browser\Browser / ~353 MB / 253 Files, 57 Folders)
>and also from our distribution directory.
>https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/13.0.8/
>This is an emergency desktop-only release which fixes a crash in pluggable
>transports for Windows 7 users. The most recent Go toolchain update seems to
>have finally broken Windows 7 suport (see golang/go/#57003 for background).
>We have downgraded our lyrebird, conjure, and webtunnel pluggable transports
>to the 1.20 series and they should be working once more on older Windows
>systems. Unfortunately, the snowflake pluggable transport depends on the
>1.21 series to work, so it will remain broken on these systems.
>We highly encourage Tor Browser users who are still on Windows 7 or 8 to
>either upgrade their systems to a modern Linux distribution, or at least to
>a supported version of Windows (10 or higher). Tor Browser will neccessarily
>have to drop support for Windows 7 and 8 after the ESR 128 transition next
>year, as Mozilla's minimum Windows operating system requirements is now
>Windows 10 or newer as of Firefox 116.
>Send us your feedback
>If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we could improve this
>release, please let us know.
>Full changelog
>The full changelog since Tor Browser 13.0.7 is:
>*Windows
> Bug tor-browser-build#41053: All PT's crash instantly in 13.0.7
> Bug tor-browser#42179: PTs on Tor Browser 13 do not work with Windows 7
>*Linux
> Bug tor-browser-build#41050: Improve the disk leak sanitization on
> start-$browser
>*Build System
> All Platforms
> Bug tor-browser-build#41042: Add options to include updates in the
> changelog scripts
> Bug tor-browser-build#41043: Create script to push build requests to
> Mullvad build servers
[end quote]

[Jack]

On 21/01/2024 05:07, D wrote:
> over the years i've used news.neodome.net and many other free newsservers,
> e.g. news.mixmin.net, news.dizum.net, etc. for read-only downloading, and
> remailers for posting to newsgroups (i've never used nyms or social media;
> mail...@neodome.net, mail...@dizum.com are currently working gateways)
>
>

I hope you do realise that this chap calling himself as Indira is a
known paedophile who goes by different nyms. He is best remembered by
the name of Arlen Holder. He goes about looking for unsecured
news-servers looking for young boys to abuse. It is best not to teach
him anything that could incriminate you to his pedo activities.

[D]

never heard of you/him/her/them/it... its a jungle out there, so caveat emptor

[D]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 05:11:35 +0530, Indira <ind...@ghandi.net> wrote:

p.s. anyone already using or interested in learning more about how to use
remailers should subscribe to <news:alt.privacy.anon-server> because
that's where many related discussions and helpful updates are posted;
e.g., this update shows currently available mail relays which can be
added/edited/removed/restored in the Omnimix "AnoMailS" > "Anon" tab:

>Subject: New mail-relays file
>Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
>From: SEC3 <ad...@sec3.net>
>Message-Id: <AOtSVctCfLhYItIt...@news.usenet.farm>
>Path: n...!news.mixmin.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!...!news.usenet.farm
>Date: Sun, 21 Jan 24 16:04:27 UTC
>
>I've prettified my mail relays list. It's a little easier to read now.
>The original TXT file mail-relays.txt now redirects to the html version.
><https://www.sec3.net/misc/mail-relays.html>
>--
>SEC3
>YAMN Help Tutorial - https://www.sec3.net/yamnhelp/
[end quote]

to which i replied in article <c6369baddb4b21fb...@dizum.com>,
mainly because plain 7-bit ascii text is the easiest format to quote . . .

uber ultra! (using Tor Browser 13.0.8)...
https://www.sec3.net/misc/mail-relays.html
>Name Mixmaster Mail Relays Port
>Mixmin fleegle.mixmin.net 25 587 2525
>Tncmm smtp.tnetconsulting.net 25 465 587 2525
>Sec3 mailrelay.archiade.net 25 587 2525
>Mixmin 3fd6guyxldqnjaqtfzejnjvq6bj7ilv5u7g7ovbubhwoeqhc222zvrad.onion 25
>Tncmm b42o7yhesx3fon7bzak4rkq7ax2yoanzapykqpzyznil6obcybe3zlyd.onion 25 465 587 2525
>Sec3 6wlmvflobk2ztvvfdese4y3zpkigsx2qbz5v6bfkamijnwifnxgpw6id.onion 25 587 2525
>Frell* a6sy4mr4vpnnfhlop2vthsi4heaonouxtrat2hpz2dzbcf45twpxvzyd.onion 25
>
>* frell or frell2 must be the first remailer in your remailer chain when using
>a6sy4mr4vpnnfhlop2vthsi4heaonouxtrat2hpz2dzbcf45twpxvzyd.onion
>Example frell,*,*,paranoia
>
>Name YAMN Mail Relays Port
>Tncmm smtp.tnetconsulting.net 25 465 587 2525
>Sec3 mailrelay.archiade.net 25 587 2525
>Mixmin 3fd6guyxldqnjaqtfzejnjvq6bj7ilv5u7g7ovbubhwoeqhc222zvrad.onion 25
>Tncmm b42o7yhesx3fon7bzak4rkq7ax2yoanzapykqpzyznil6obcybe3zlyd.onion 25 465 587 2525
>Sec3 6wlmvflobk2ztvvfdese4y3zpkigsx2qbz5v6bfkamijnwifnxgpw6id.onion 25 587 2525
>Victor u44mxsvwctps3fxvgmr2fuzuzn74gzatiwuwyqpyr4rk74ipfsercfqd.onion 25
>Frell* a6sy4mr4vpnnfhlop2vthsi4heaonouxtrat2hpz2dzbcf45twpxvzyd.onion 25
>
>* frell must be the first remailer in your remailer chain when using
>a6sy4mr4vpnnfhlop2vthsi4heaonouxtrat2hpz2dzbcf45twpxvzyd.onion
>Example frell,*,*,paranoyamn
>--
>Last updated on Fri Jan 19 2024
>Please report new relays or corrections to SEC3
>
[end quote]