Free Newsserver FAQ

[Helm]

This is a biweekly list of free newsserver that will be crossposted into various free Usenet newsgroups.

BINARY SERVERS:
speedium.nl (new tier 1 backbone in testing, free binary downloading and posting allowed temporarily)
xsusenet.com (25 gigabytes a month, speed limited, renews every month, no posting)
usenet.farm (Free trial for 10 gigabytes, no posting, not reusable)
free-usenet.com (Abavia, limited to 1 mbps)
usenetmax.com
news.neodome.net (very limited binaries)

TEXT SERVERS:
aioe.org
eternal-september.org (requires registration)
mixmin.net
albasani.net
fcku.it (web2news interface)
dizum.com (mail2news gateway, free reading on NNTP)
tulanet.com
killfile.org (do not carry alt hierarchy)
news.samoylyk.net

GOOD PAID BINARY SERVERS:
All servers below have high retention and completion rates and are recommended by the Usenet community.

novausenet.com
vipernews.com
usenetexpress.com
newsgroup.ninja
usenet.farm (paid option)


Any additions would be appreciated! Thank you to /r/usenet and the server list in
Message ID <r048u8$28uh$5...@neodome.net> for making this possible.

[Arlen Holder]

In response to what Helm wrote :

> Any additions would be appreciated!

Hi Helm,
(alt.binaries.freeware & alt.uk.free.usenet.servers removed as per mixmin policy)

I found this in my logs, where I make no claim as to current accuracy.

a. aioe_rw nntp.aioe.org:119 (permanent NNTP posting host hash)
username=<blank> password=<blank>
admin=Paolo Amoroso (estasi at aioe dot org)

b. albasani_rw reader.albasani.net:119
admin=Roman Racine (roman dot racine at gmail dot com)
(Albasani used to be Alexander Bartolich & Sabine Schultz)
Site=<http://albasani.net/index.html.en>
Register=ne...@albasani.net (roman....@gmail.com)
Login information will be sent to your email.
c. albasani_ro reader.albasani.net:119 (this is the slowest)
username=readonly password=readonly

d. blueworld_rw
(no longer in service)
admin=Jesse Rehmer jesse dot rehmer at gmail dot com

e. dizum_ro news.dizum.net:119
username=<blank> password=<blank>
admin=Alex de Joode Amsterdam us...@despair.sabotage.org

f. esept_rw news.eternal-september.org:119 (563 SSL)
Also: reader80.eternal-september.org:80
Also: reader443.eternal-september.org:443
admin=Ray Bananna (rayban at raybanana dot net)
admin=Wolfgang M. Weyand wolfgang(at)eternal-september.org
Berliner Strasse 26 D-61348 Bad Homburg v.d.H. ICQ 335794777
New servers 20170904 <http://www.eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php>
Site=<http://www.eternal-september.org>
Register=<http://eternal-september.org/RegisterNewsAccount.ph>
Login information will be sent to your email.

g. mixmin_rw news.mixmin.net:563[SSL]
username=<blank> password=<blank>
admin=Steve Crook (steve at mixmin dot net)
h. mixmin_ro news.mixmin.net:119
username=<blank> password=<blank>
admin=Steve Crook

i. mozilla_rw news.mozilla.org:119 (cleartext NNTP posting host)
username=<blank> password=<blank>
NOTE: Special purpose "newsgroup" for the mozilla hierarchy
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.general>
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.support.firefox>
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.support.thunderbird>
admin=?

j. neodome_ro news.neodome.net:119 (read only)
username=<blank> password=<blank>
In 2018 neodome seems to add read & write for free!
website: <http://neodome.net>
newsgroup: neodome.general
admin=ad...@neodome.net (you can request an account from him)
Neodome on port 563(SSL) was always available for posting.
Neodome on port 119 was always available for reading.
As of about June 1st 2018, neodome is available for posting on port 119.
(I think this stopped working, inexplicably, a few weeks ago.)

k. netfront_rw freenews.netfront.net:119 (cleartext NNTP posting host)
username=<blank> password=<blank>
unknown (somewhere in China?)
NOTE: Netfront only allows a handful of posts per day per IP.
admin=?

l. news4all: unknown (somewhere in Sweden?) Leissner Data AB
admin=?

m. solani_rw news.solani.org:119
admin=Daniel & Monika Weber & Benjamin Gufler usenet at news.solani.org
Solani (they remove you if you don't use it in 60 days):
site=http://news.solani.org
register=http://news.solani.org/register
Login information will be sent to your email instantaneously.

n. sunsite: news.sunsite.dk:119
admin=Steen Jensen in Denmark
Registration=Must put email in nntp header & must respond to auth req
Register=news-...@sunsite.de
Login information will be sent to your email.

o. xsusenet: unknown (somewhere in the Netherlands?) ENOM, INC
us...@nospam.sabotage.org XS4ALL Internet BV Societe Anonyme Botage
admin=adej...@sabotage.org
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Together we can accomplish far more than any one of us can alone.

[Arlen Holder]

Searched today and found these, again, making no claim on accuracy...
(anyone confirm purposefully free read/write text-only nntp servers below?)

Reputed purposefully free text-only (hopefully read/write) NNTP servers
(not just those who left the barn door open).

From a search only, which is the starting point.
o Please test & report back if you are interested in pitching in...

Purposefully free, text only, read/write hopefully:
https://www.newsgroupreviews.com/server-address-ports.html
http://theanna.org/grams/nntpservers.html
https://www.newsgroupreviews.com/server-address-ports.html
https://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/Public/NNTP/url.htm
https://www.elfqrin.com/hacklab/pages/nntpserv.php
https://usenetreviewz.com/free-usenet/usenet-access/
https://freenews.maxbaud.net/home
https://www.newsgroupservers.net/usenet-service-back-end-providers/free-newsgroup-servers/
?

Specialized lists:
https://www.nyx.net/~bkraft/
http://home.snafu.de/hweede/pulin.htm
?

Ephemeral lists, perhaps whose barn door was temporarily left open:
https://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/Public/NNTP/url.htm
http://nntp.freeservers.com/
http://sok.tripod.com/news.html
http://saddleburr.tripod.com/NNTPsrvr.html
http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/shuo/freenntp.html
http://freenewsserver.site666.com/
?
(this list is provided to distinguish with the real lists)

Usenet utilities or general articles:
http://tokak.us/big8/articles/n/e/w/News_Service_Providers.html
http://nntp.freeservers.com/
http://al.howardknight.net
https://greycoder.com/best-free-usenet-servers/
https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/the-best-usenet-providers-2020
?

As always, please add value where you can help everyone.
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Each article to Usenet should add on-topic technical value.

[Neodome Admin]

<Helm> wrote:

> BINARY SERVERS:

> news.neodome.net (very limited binaries)

Neodome.net probably should not be listed as binary server since it was
never intended to be one. The server is just not filtering out chunks of
binaries it receives from other peers, but those chunks are basically
random little pieces, they are not good to assemble file back unless file
itself is extra small.

Real binary Usenet server would cost more than I’m able to afford to spend
on free project.

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Neodome