Re: Free News Servers Listing

On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 05:45:15 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

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On 2023-04-14, Syber Shock <admin@sybershock.com> wrote:

A list of free news server providers now lives at:
https://sybershock.com/#usenet
Peer operators and usenetizens: if there are more that may be added to
the list please post them here or send to the sysop email on the site
or in this message header.
I would like to find and list every free NNTP host possible. This
should include local niche sites that don't feed yet do allow public
access.
SugarBug | https://sybershock.com

>
Here is another, not much activity, but still being run.
news.altexxanet.org
http://altexxanet.org/
Is the main website, also has IRC, gopher, some other old technologies.

(using Tor Browser 13.5)
http://altexxanet.org/usenet.html

ALTEXXANET runs a "standalone" usenet server which does not pull feeds from
other servers. The only newsgroups which exist are local to our server.
You'll need to obtain a news client from our downloads page and point it to
news.altexxanet.org.

[end quote]

read-only test (using Tor Browser 13.5):
http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.altexxanet.org&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.altexxanet.org (5)
0 Group(s) matched!
altexxanet.comp.discussion (42)
altexxanet.comp.help (3)
altexxanet.general.feedback (0)
altexxanet.general.introductions (14)
altexxanet.testing (53)

read-only test (using Tor Browser 13.5):
http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=paganini.bofh.team&btnsubmit=Go

Server: paganini.bofh.team (48696)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=freenews.netfront.net&btnsubmit=Go

Server: freenews.netfront.net (47473)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.samoylyk.net&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.samoylyk.net (45909)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.dizum.net&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.dizum.net (45728)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.alphared.net&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.alphared.net (45728)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.blueworldhosting.com&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.blueworldhosting.com (45059)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.novabbs.org&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.novabbs.org (42485)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.i2pn2.org&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.i2pn2.org (42473)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.mixmin.net&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.mixmin.net (41841)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.alt119.net&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.alt119.net (40530)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.usenet.ovh&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.usenet.ovh (15322)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.chmurka.net&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.chmurka.net (3752)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.grc.com&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.grc.com (39)

http://put.hk/reader.jsp?server=news.eternal-september.org&btnsubmit=Go

Server: news.eternal-september.org (12) *requires login, tor disabled

there are probably dozens of other free news servers, some of which
are known to work with tor and also use ssl/port 563, albeit posting
via some of these free news servers may not work with or without tor