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dizum down?
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On Fri, 4 Sep 2026 08:31:13 +0530
Dean Hoffman <deanhofman@clod.com> wrote:

dizum down?

Didums.
--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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On 03 Sep 2026, Dean Hoffman <deanhofman@clod.com> posted some news:117dc9p$23d1l$1@paganini.bofh.team:

dizum down?

Looks like it.

"00:14:52.551 N Connection with NNTP server failed ('Socket Error # 10053|Software caused connection abort.')"
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Dean Hoffman wrote:

dizum down?

I'm getting permission denied error message.

20260904 08:29:53.053 TID=8220- Error in thread "Get article list for dizum-563" - Class: EIdReplyRFCError, ErrorCode: 502, Message:
Permission denied
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Il 04/09/2026 14:31, badgolferman ha scritto:

Dean Hoffman wrote:

dizum down?

I'm getting permission denied error message.

20260904 08:29:53.053 TID=8220- Error in thread "Get article list for dizum-563" - Class: EIdReplyRFCError, ErrorCode: 502, Message:
Permission denied

That's easy

ivo@tartini:/etc/news$ telnet news.dizum.net 119
Trying 45.66.35.220...
Connected to news.dizum.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
400 Expiring process 12578
Connection closed by foreign host.
ivo@tartini:/etc/news$


The INN process stuck into the expire process. Need a restart. I think
dizum admin's never noticed that (no monitoring).



Sincerely
--
Ivo Gandolfo
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On 04 Sep 2026, Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> posted some news:117eh9g$25bar$1@paganini.bofh.team:

Il 04/09/2026 14:31, badgolferman ha scritto:

Dean Hoffman wrote:

dizum down?

I'm getting permission denied error message.

20260904 08:29:53.053 TID=8220- Error in thread "Get article list for
Permission denied

That's easy

ivo@tartini:/etc/news$ telnet news.dizum.net 119
Trying 45.66.35.220...
Connected to news.dizum.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
400 Expiring process 12578
Connection closed by foreign host.
ivo@tartini:/etc/news$

The INN process stuck into the expire process. Need a restart. I think
dizum admin's never noticed that (no monitoring).

200 sewer InterNetNews server INN 2.6.3 ready (transit mode)

list newsgroups alt.free.newsservers
215 Newsgroup descriptions in form "group description"
alt.free.newsservers Talk about free (open) news servers

mode reader
403 Expiring process 12578
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Ivo Gandolfo wrote:

ivo@tartini:/etc/news$ telnet news.dizum.net 119
Trying 45.66.35.220...
Connected to news.dizum.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
400 Expiring process 12578
Connection closed by foreign host.
ivo@tartini:/etc/news$

The INN process stuck into the expire process. Need a restart. I think
dizum admin's never noticed that (no monitoring).

Yes,
news.dizum.com returns a 403 Expiring process 12578 error: the INN
server is performing maintenance or article expiration and is
temporarily refusing requests.
I presume ...

Gabx
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https://contact.virebent.art
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On 2026-09-05, Gab virebent <gabriel1@virebent.invalid> wrote:> Ivo
Gandolfo wrote:

ivo@tartini:/etc/news$ telnet news.dizum.net 119
Trying 45.66.35.220...
Connected to news.dizum.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
400 Expiring process 12578
Connection closed by foreign host.
ivo@tartini:/etc/news$


The INN process stuck into the expire process. Need a restart. I think
dizum admin's never noticed that (no monitoring).

Yes,
news.dizum.com returns a 403 Expiring process 12578 error: the INN
server is performing maintenance or article expiration and is
temporarily refusing requests.
I presume ...

Gabx

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not post)
that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an account?
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Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not post) that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an account?

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team
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On Sat, 9/5/2026 12:30 PM, Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not post) that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an account?

freenews.netfront.net Port 119

Went read-only, as a response to the ThaiSpam incident.

By comparing two of these kinds of servers, you can
decide whether any of the servers have "holes" in their collection.

Paul


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Gab virebent used his or her keyboard to write :

Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not post) >> that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an account? >>

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?
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On Sat, 9/5/2026 3:27 PM, FromTheRafters wrote:

Gab virebent used his or her keyboard to write :

Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not post) >>> that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an account? >>>

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

news.mixmin.net Port 563

Incoming articles seem to have stopped.

But, it hasn't run out of disk space :-) There's that.
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On 9/5/2026 10:46 PM, Paul wrote:>>> news.tcpreset.net

paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

news.mixmin.net Port 563

Incoming articles seem to have stopped.

But, it hasn't run out of disk space :-) There's that.

A search shows that news.pugleaf.net:119 should work for read only

But it doesn't work for me
Does it work for anyone?
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In article <117hqe6$2ge8f$1@news.tcpreset.net>, erratic@nomail.afraid.org says...

Gab virebent used his or her keyboard to write :

Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not
post)
that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an
account?

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

It still works but has no updates since last year.

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In article <117ih74$34gre$1@news.tcpreset.net>, erratic@nomail.afraid.org says...

On 9/5/2026 10:46 PM, Paul wrote:>>> news.tcpreset.net

paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

news.mixmin.net Port 563

Incoming articles seem to have stopped.

But, it hasn't run out of disk space :-) There's that.

A search shows that news.pugleaf.net:119 should work for read only

But it doesn't work for me
Does it work for anyone?

telnet fra.pugleaf.net:119
200 news-fra.pugleaf.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.7.1 ready (no
posting)
mode reader
200 news-fra.pugleaf.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.7.1 ready (no
posting)
help
100 Legal commands
ARTICLE [message-ID|number]
AUTHINFO USER name|PASS password|SASL mechanism [initial-
response]|GENERIC program [argument ...]
BODY [message-ID|number]
CAPABILITIES [keyword]
COMPRESS DEFLATE
DATE
GROUP newsgroup
HDR header [message-ID|range]
HEAD [message-ID|number]
HELP
IHAVE message-ID
LAST
LIST [ACTIVE [wildmat]|ACTIVE.TIMES [wildmat]|COUNTS [wildmat]|DISTRIB.PATS|DISTRIBUTIONS|HEADERS [MSGID|RANGE]|MODERATORS|MOTD|NEWSGROUPS
[wildmat]|OVERVIEW.FMT|SUBSCRIPTIONS [wildmat]]
LISTGROUP [newsgroup [range]]
MODE READER
NEWGROUPS [yy]yymmdd hhmmss [GMT]
NEWNEWS wildmat [yy]yymmdd hhmmss [GMT]
NEXT
OVER [range]
POST
QUIT
STARTTLS
STAT [message-ID|number]
XGTITLE [wildmat]
XHDR header [message-ID|range]
XOVER [range]
XPAT header message-ID|range pattern [pattern ...]
Report problems to <usenet@news-fra.pugleaf.net>.
.

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On 05 Sep 2026, Gab virebent <gabriel1@virebent.invalid> posted some

Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not
post) that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register
an account?

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team

news-fra.pugleaf.net
news.bbs.nz
nntp.csiph.com
news.usenet.ovh

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On 05 Sep 2026, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> posted some

On Sat, 9/5/2026 12:30 PM, Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not
post) that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register
an account?

freenews.netfront.net Port 119

Went read-only, as a response to the ThaiSpam incident.

...and Jonathan Ball who ruined open access on three other servers around
the same time.

By comparing two of these kinds of servers, you can
decide whether any of the servers have "holes" in their collection.

Paul

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On 05 Sep 2026, FromTheRafters <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> posted some news:117ih74$34gre$1@news.tcpreset.net:

On 9/5/2026 10:46 PM, Paul wrote:>>> news.tcpreset.net

paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

news.mixmin.net Port 563

Incoming articles seem to have stopped.

But, it hasn't run out of disk space :-) There's that.

A search shows that news.pugleaf.net:119 should work for read only

But it doesn't work for me
Does it work for anyone?

It works perfectly. ===============================================================
Path: news-fra.pugleaf.net!news.tcpreset.net!not-for-mail
From: FromTheRafters <erratic@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers,alt.privacy.anon-
server,news.admin.peering
Subject: Re: dizum down?
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 01:55:50 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: TCPReset Usenet Service
Message-ID: <117ih74$34gre$1@news.tcpreset.net>
References: <117dc9p$23d1l$1@paganini.bofh.team> <117edmt$kmf1$1@dont- email.me> <117eh9g$25bar$1@paganini.bofh.team> <117gsuf$2e41j$1@news.tcpreset.net> <117hg3l$2flgf$1@news.tcpreset.net> <117hhjk$2fot4$1@news.tcpreset.net> <117hqe6$2ge8f$1@news.tcpreset.net> <117igl6$20cib$1@dont-email.me>
Injection-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 01:55:50 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: news.tcpreset.net; logging-data="3294062"; mail- complaints-to="abuse@tcpreset.net"; posting- host="8c566b036bff28056bc9915615bcdb93"; posting- account="3179a42498143c7a25ef9805b8078591";
X-Postfilter: Postfilter-NG 2026.08.1-rc2
Xref: news-fra.pugleaf.net alt.free.newsservers:934 alt.privacy.anon- server:6047 news.admin.peering:356

On 9/5/2026 10:46 PM, Paul wrote:>>> news.tcpreset.net

paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

news.mixmin.net Port 563

Incoming articles seem to have stopped.

But, it hasn't run out of disk space :-) There's that.

A search shows that news.pugleaf.net:119 should work for read only

But it doesn't work for me
Does it work for anyone? ===============================================================
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On 05 Sep 2026, reynolds <reynolds@dev.nuked> posted some news:20260906-032056.374.0@reynolds.news.tcpreset.net:

In article <117hqe6$2ge8f$1@news.tcpreset.net>,
erratic@nomail.afraid.org says...

Gab virebent used his or her keyboard to write :

Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news
(not post)
that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an
account?

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

It still works but has no updates since last year.

It does in a.p.a-s.


--
Thanks Zax!
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In news.admin.peering Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com> wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not post) that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an account?

Feel free to use news.chmurka.net.
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On Sun, 6 Sep 2026 08:56:53 -0000 (UTC), anonymous wrote:

erratic@nomail.afraid.org says...

Gab virebent used his or her keyboard to write :

Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news
(not post)
that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an
account?

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

It still works but has no updates since last year.

It does in a.p.a-s.

Why would mixmin:563 update only for alt.privacy.anon-server but mixmin:119 would not update for all the other important text newsgroups?
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On Sat, 5 Sep 2026 21:46:13 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 9/5/2026 3:27 PM, FromTheRafters wrote:

Gab virebent used his or her keyboard to write :

Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not post) >>>> that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an account? >>>>

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

news.mixmin.net Port 563

Incoming articles seem to have stopped.

But, it hasn't run out of disk space :-) There's that.

From chatgpt

Mixmin is particularly interesting. The admin, Steve Crook, steve at mixmin
dot net, seems to have been eventually driven to despair by a small set of specific but particularly malicious and endlessly persistent trolls who
destroy anything useful out of nothing but their own malice.

However, the web server is clearly still alive as its directory currently contains a pgpkey.asc dated June 2025 and an active file dated September
2025, even as its admin may have been exasperated by the server issues.

Its peering page still says newsmaster@mixmin.net. So the absence of new articles in the canonical alt.free.newservers the long-standing venerable news.admin.peering newsgroups isn't necessarily evidence that the whole infrastructure has disappeared.
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On 06 Sep 2026, dan <nospam@nospam.com> posted some news:117k3l4$38cpm$1@news.tcpreset.net:

On Sun, 6 Sep 2026 08:56:53 -0000 (UTC), anonymous wrote:

erratic@nomail.afraid.org says...

Gab virebent used his or her keyboard to write :

Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news
(not post)
that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register an
account?

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team

What about mixmin?

It still works but has no updates since last year.

It does in a.p.a-s.

Why would mixmin:563 update only for alt.privacy.anon-server but
mixmin:119 would not update for all the other important text
newsgroups?

There's a logical answer :D. Think about it.

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aw@somewhere.invalid (Adam W.) wrote in news:2efacfed-99ed-4dc6-acee-4d4b7ade1b7e-aw@news.chmurka.net:

In news.admin.peering Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com> wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not
post) that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register
an account?

Feel free to use news.chmurka.net.

It doesn't have apa-s.
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In news.admin.peering anon@domain.invalid wrote:

Feel free to use news.chmurka.net.

It doesn't have apa-s.

Now it has :)
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On Sat, 5 Sep 2026 16:30:46 -0000 (UTC)
Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com> wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not
post) that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register
an account?

If you sign up for an account on my BBS, you can get free access to
read/post if you just drop me a message. You can use Putty but I
recommend SyncTERM to connect to endofthelinebbs.com or you can
register online via https://www.endofthelinebbs.com

I generally don't check real names or stuff like that.
--
End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX
telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23


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Nigel Reed wrote:

If you sign up for an account on my BBS, you can get free access to
read/post if you just drop me a message. You can use Putty but I
recommend SyncTERM to connect to endofthelinebbs.com or you can
register online via https://www.endofthelinebbs.com

I generally don't check real names or stuff like that.

+1

Gab
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Gab_Virebent wrote:

Nigel Reed wrote:

If you sign up for an account on my BBS, you can get free access to
read/post if you just drop me a message. You can use Putty but I
recommend SyncTERM to connect to endofthelinebbs.com or you can
register online via https://www.endofthelinebbs.com

I generally don't check real names or stuff like that.

+1

Gab

We all love that the news admins are working together as a team!

I, am just a user, where I appreciate that kind offer from End Of
The Line BBS operated by Nigel Reed (nelgin) out of Plano, Texas.
a. <endofthelinebbs.com>
b. <newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com>

Since every post from me strives to add value that wasn't there...
(many thanks to Jesse, by the way, who is one of the best!)

Here's my free-no-registration-read-only list from days of old, which
likely may need corrections, removals, or additions, as these are only
those that I'm aware of only from being on this Usenet ng for decades.

In gvim ":sort" order...

freenews.netfront.net:119 unknown admin <news at netfront dot net>
news.bbs.nz:119 Kerr Avon (Agency News) <newsmaster at news dot bbs dot nz>
news.chmurka.net:119 Adam Wysocki news-contact at chmurka dot net abuse-news at chmurka dot net
news.dizum.net:119 Alex de Joode <usura at despair dot sabotage dot org>
news-fra.pugleaf.net:119 Billy G. go-while <42-contact-42 at pugleaf dotnet>
news.mixmin.net:119/563 Steve Crook newsmaster at mixmin dot net, steve at mixmin dot net
news.neodome.net:119/563 unknown admin <admin at neodome dot net>
news.tcpreset.net:119 Gabx, <info at tcpreset dot net> <gabriel1 at virebent dot art>
news.usenet.ovh:119 Jean-Paul, <contact at usenet dot ovh>
nntp.csiph.com:119 Kevin Bowling <admin at csiph dot com> ?
paganini.bofh.team:119 Ivo Gandolfo <usenet at bofh dot team?>

First request:
1. Please tell me which data to *remove* (especially contact information!)

Second request
2. Please tell me which data is missing (especially missing servers)

Third request:
3. I would love to learn of the privacy implications, if any, for
those of us who set one newsgroup of the dozen they read daily
to each of those wonderful free no-registration news servers.

Q: Does that afford greater read privacy than using 1 server alone?
A: ?
--
Usenet is a wonderful community of kind-hearted volunteers who do
it for the team, and who don't try to eke out money from everyone.
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Maria Sophia wrote:

freenews.netfront.net:119 unknown admin <news at netfront dot net>
news.bbs.nz:119 Kerr Avon (Agency News) <newsmaster at news dot bbs dot nz>
news.chmurka.net:119 Adam Wysocki news-contact at chmurka dot net abuse-news at chmurka dot net
news.dizum.net:119 Alex de Joode <usura at despair dot sabotage dot org>
news-fra.pugleaf.net:119 Billy G. go-while <42-contact-42 at pugleaf dotnet>
news.mixmin.net:119/563 Steve Crook newsmaster at mixmin dot net, steve at mixmin dot net
news.neodome.net:119/563 unknown admin <admin at neodome dot net>
news.tcpreset.net:119 Gabx, <info at tcpreset dot net> <gabriel1 at virebent dot art>
news.usenet.ovh:119 Jean-Paul, <contact at usenet dot ovh>
nntp.csiph.com:119 Kevin Bowling <admin at csiph dot com> ?
paganini.bofh.team:119 Ivo Gandolfo <usenet at bofh dot team?>hank

Thank you for your list :)
Much appreciated (y)


Best regards
Gabx
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In alt.free.newsservers anonymous <noreply@mixmin.net> wrote:

On 05 Sep 2026, Gab virebent <gabriel1@virebent.invalid> posted some

Chris Schram wrote:

Is there another free news server that can be used to read news (not
post) that we can set the nntp server to without needing to register
an account?

news.tcpreset.net
paganini.bofh.team

news-fra.pugleaf.net
news.bbs.nz
nntp.csiph.com
news.usenet.ovh

Which ones let us post for free?
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