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Please,
can someone write a list of *FREE of charge* Usenet servers that *allow posting* (also with registration, if needed) and are still stable and functioning?

Here Below my small list of servers that I test(ed) and I use(d).
All of them are still working, to date!
- blueworldhosting.com -(registration required)
- corradoroberto.it -(registration required)
- Eternal-September.org -(registration required)
- paganini.bofh.team -(NO reg. Required) - using/testing it right now!
- solani.org -(registration required)

OHERS?? MTIA
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Taf< wrote:

Please,
can someone write a list of *FREE of charge* Usenet servers that *allow posting* (also with registration, if needed) and are still stable and functioning?

Here Below my small list of servers that I test(ed) and I use(d).
All of them are still working, to date!
- blueworldhosting.com -(registration required)
- corradoroberto.it -(registration required)
- Eternal-September.org -(registration required)
- paganini.bofh.team -(NO reg. Required) - using/testing it right now!
- solani.org -(registration required)

OHERS?? MTIA

news.tcpreset.net
https://news.tcpreset.net

Gabx
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On 06/10/2025 , *Gabx* wrote:

Taf< wrote:

Please,
can someone write a list of *FREE of charge* Usenet servers that *allow
posting* (also with registration, if needed) and are still stable and
functioning?

Here Below my small list of servers that I test(ed) and I use(d).
All of them are still working, to date!
- blueworldhosting.com -(registration required)
- corradoroberto.it -(registration required)
- Eternal-September.org -(registration required)
- paganini.bofh.team -(NO reg. Required) - using/testing it right now!
- solani.org -(registration required)

OHERS?? MTIA

news.tcpreset.net
https://news.tcpreset.net

Gabx

tnxalot
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Taf< wrote:

OHERS?? MTIA

news.tcpreset.net
https://news.tcpreset.net

Gabx

tnxalot

+1000

Gabx
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{news.} neodum & dizum [dot] net

enjoy
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I assume no binaries.


Taf< <taf@mailnesia.com> wrote:

Please,
can someone write a list of *FREE of charge* Usenet servers that *allow posting* (also with registration, if needed) and are still stable and functioning?

Here Below my small list of servers that I test(ed) and I use(d).
All of them are still working, to date!
- blueworldhosting.com -(registration required)
- corradoroberto.it -(registration required)
- Eternal-September.org -(registration required)
- paganini.bofh.team -(NO reg. Required) - using/testing it right now!
- solani.org -(registration required)

OHERS?? MTIA

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Gabx <info@tcpreset.invalid> wrote:
...

news.tcpreset.net
https://news.tcpreset.net

No SSL port 563 for news.tcpreset.net usenet server? I even tried unsecured 119 port, but I am not getting anything. :(
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Afk <no.thanks@you.spamer> wrote:

{news.} neodum & dizum [dot] net

enjoy

news.neodum.net did not connect. pinging and nslookup failed for neodum.net domain. :(
news.dizum.net worked nicely. No registration to read and post via SSL port 563. :)
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On Fri, 11/21/2025 10:16 PM, Ant wrote:

Afk <no.thanks@you.spamer> wrote:

{news.} neodum & dizum [dot] net

enjoy

news.neodum.net did not connect. pinging and nslookup failed for neodum.net domain. :(
news.dizum.net worked nicely. No registration to read and post via SSL port 563. :)

neodome is spelled neodome .

Paul
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Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 11/21/2025 10:16 PM, Ant wrote:

Afk <no.thanks@you.spamer> wrote:

{news.} neodum & dizum [dot] net

enjoy

news.neodum.net did not connect. pinging and nslookup failed for neodum.net domain. :(
news.dizum.net worked nicely. No registration to read and post via SSL port 563. :)

neodome is spelled neodome .

Thanks, Paul! No posting and SSL/TLS port 563? :(
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On Sat, 11/22/2025 1:18 AM, Ant wrote:

Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 11/21/2025 10:16 PM, Ant wrote:

Afk <no.thanks@you.spamer> wrote:

{news.} neodum & dizum [dot] net

enjoy

news.neodum.net did not connect. pinging and nslookup failed for neodum.net domain. :(
news.dizum.net worked nicely. No registration to read and post via SSL port 563. :)

neodome is spelled neodome .

Thanks, Paul! No posting and SSL/TLS port 563? :(

Someone else might know the history. Server may have had
a rough ride in the past, causing the owner to think defensively.

Paul
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On 22/11/2025 , *Ant* wrote:

I assume no binaries.

<---

Yep! ;)
For me dizum & neodome are not working in posting, only reading...
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:53:12 -0500, Paul wrote:

Someone else might know the history. Server may have had
a rough ride in the past, causing the owner to think defensively.

AFAIK it's used by trolls.
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s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:53:12 -0500, Paul wrote:

[...]

Someone else might know the history. Server may have had
a rough ride in the past, causing the owner to think defensively.

AFAIK it's used by trolls.

Neodome was the source of a number of floods a few years ago;
the story is in nanau. It may have been redeemed since then,
I'm not aware of any current problems.
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Op 22-11-2025 om 16:45 schreef Sn!pe:

s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:53:12 -0500, Paul wrote:

[...]

Someone else might know the history. Server may have had
a rough ride in the past, causing the owner to think defensively.

AFAIK it's used by trolls.

Neodome was the source of a number of floods a few years ago;
the story is in nanau. It may have been redeemed since then,
I'm not aware of any current problems.

Neodome does not allow posting,
except for the neodome.* hierarchy.

Reading is without registration, as far as I know, and still working.

Rink
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Thanks to Taf and others for this excellent list and thanks to the creator
of this newsgroup and to Davide Cavion (i.e. the creator of Narkive) for making me aware of this thread.

What are the waiting times for registrations with these news servers?

(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
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Moments ago I successfully made my first post starting from
Paganini.BOFH.team

Thanks to the BOFH team!

Interestingly a moment earlier I failed with the only difference being
that the successful version's body is all in ASCII (with German Word fuer spelled as 4 ASCII letters), whereas the failed version has this German
word spelled as one Unicode non-ASCII letter (with an Umlaut) plus two
ASCII letters.

The Unicode non-ASCII From: field in both versions is unchanged.

Alpine showed an error message about an invalid content type while
failing.
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<thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

Moments ago I successfully made my first post starting from >Paganini.BOFH.team

Thanks to the BOFH team!

Interestingly a moment earlier I failed with the only difference being
that the successful version's body is all in ASCII (with German Word fuer >spelled as 4 ASCII letters), whereas the failed version has this German
word spelled as one Unicode non-ASCII letter (with an Umlaut) plus two
ASCII letters.

The Unicode non-ASCII From: field in both versions is unchanged.

Alpine showed an error message about an invalid content type while
failing.

Alpine is doing its job. That is indeed an error, a mismatch between the character set declaration and characters you used in the composer.

Read how alpine attempts to parse in the help text for the following
option.

OPTION: Posting Character Set
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
"Alpine is doing its job. That is indeed an error, a mismatch between the character set declaration and characters you used in the composer."

Dear Mister Kerman:

Merry Christmas! Thanks for responding!

Is this really an Alpine issue instead of a BOFH.team issue? I used
exactly the same copy of Alpine to post the Unicode non-ASCII body of news:c062aef9-ac4c-6f44-d64a-d0fc9f00b013@insomnia247.nl
on
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 13:53:05 +0100

The only difference in settings is the sending NNTP server - i.e. nothing
to do with a character set or editing. I.e.
/home/gloucester $ diff Gloucester_.pinerc_backed_up_on_21st_December_2025_before_replacing_Eternal_September_for_posting .pinerc
25c25
< nntp-server=news.eternal-September.org/user=ColinPaulGloster
---

nntp-server=paganini.BOFH.team

/home/gloucester $
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thanks-to@Taf.com wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

"Alpine is doing its job. That is indeed an error, a mismatch between the >character set declaration and characters you used in the composer."

Is this really an Alpine issue instead of a BOFH.team issue? I used
exactly the same copy of Alpine to post the Unicode non-ASCII body of >news:c062aef9-ac4c-6f44-d64a-d0fc9f00b013@insomnia247.nl
on
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 13:53:05 +0100

The only difference in settings is the sending NNTP server - i.e. nothing
to do with a character set or editing. I.e.
/home/gloucester $ diff
Gloucester_.pinerc_backed_up_on_21st_December_2025_before_replacing_Eternal_September_for_posting .pinerc
25c25
< nntp-server=news.eternal-September.org/user=ColinPaulGloster
---

nntp-server=paganini.BOFH.team

/home/gloucester $

I can't offer a further opinion without having access to logs as to why
the proto article was rejected. If I guessed wrong and it wasn't a
nonstandard character set description, then I agree that alpine passed
along an error message from the server and wasn't informing you of an
issue found by the client.

Did you check that option? Do you have anything set?
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Il 21/12/2025 17:12, Adam H. Kerman ha scritto:

thanks-to@Taf.com wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

"Alpine is doing its job. That is indeed an error, a mismatch between the
character set declaration and characters you used in the composer."

Is this really an Alpine issue instead of a BOFH.team issue? I used
exactly the same copy of Alpine to post the Unicode non-ASCII body of
news:c062aef9-ac4c-6f44-d64a-d0fc9f00b013@insomnia247.nl
on
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 13:53:05 +0100

The only difference in settings is the sending NNTP server - i.e. nothing
to do with a character set or editing. I.e.
/home/gloucester $ diff
Gloucester_.pinerc_backed_up_on_21st_December_2025_before_replacing_Eternal_September_for_posting .pinerc
25c25
< nntp-server=news.eternal-September.org/user=ColinPaulGloster
---

nntp-server=paganini.BOFH.team

/home/gloucester $

I can't offer a further opinion without having access to logs as to why
the proto article was rejected. If I guessed wrong and it wasn't a nonstandard character set description, then I agree that alpine passed
along an error message from the server and wasn't informing you of an
issue found by the client.

Did you check that option? Do you have anything set?

My filter check the content type:

text\/plain|multipart\/mixed|application\/news-groupinfo|application\/news-checkgroups|multipart\/signed|text\/html|multipart\/alternative

if the content type specified by client don't reflect the permitted
type, the post are rejected. Content type text plain is always accepted.



Sincerely
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Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> wrote:

Il 21/12/2025 17:12, Adam H. Kerman ha scritto:

thanks-to@Taf.com wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

"Alpine is doing its job. That is indeed an error, a mismatch between the >>>character set declaration and characters you used in the composer."

Is this really an Alpine issue instead of a BOFH.team issue? I used >>>exactly the same copy of Alpine to post the Unicode non-ASCII body of >>>news:c062aef9-ac4c-6f44-d64a-d0fc9f00b013@insomnia247.nl
on
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 13:53:05 +0100

The only difference in settings is the sending NNTP server - i.e. nothing >>>to do with a character set or editing. I.e.
/home/gloucester $ diff >>>Gloucester_.pinerc_backed_up_on_21st_December_2025_before_replacing_Eternal_September_for_posting .pinerc
25c25
< nntp-server=news.eternal-September.org/user=ColinPaulGloster
---

nntp-server=paganini.BOFH.team

/home/gloucester $

I can't offer a further opinion without having access to logs as to why
the proto article was rejected. If I guessed wrong and it wasn't a >>nonstandard character set description, then I agree that alpine passed >>along an error message from the server and wasn't informing you of an
issue found by the client.

Did you check that option? Do you have anything set?

My filter check the content type:

text\/plain|multipart\/mixed|application\/news-groupinfo|application\/news-checkgroups|multipart\/signed|text\/html|multipart\/alternative

if the content type specified by client don't reflect the permitted
type, the post are rejected. Content type text plain is always accepted.

Of course, but that's not default behavior of alpine.
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Hello again.

I am sorry if I annoyed you. I try to do things properly so if I make
mistakes then please be so tolerant as to advise me.

These rejections are BOFH.team-server rejections (reported by Alpine).
Alpine did not reject. Eternal September does not so reject.

Even before I have ever attempted to start with BOFH.team, I had already configured Alpine as follows . . .
Posting Character Set = UTF-8
The help system which comes with this version of Alpine (i.e. 2.26) says
for this option:
" OPTION: Posting Character Set

The Posting Character Set configuration option is used when sending
messages.

When sending a message the text typed in the composer is labeled with the character set specified by this option. [. . .]
[. . .]

Generally, there should be little need to set this option. [. . .]
[. . .]

[. . .] by setting this option explicitly
to "UTF-8" all non-ASCII messages you send will be labeled as "UTF-8"
instead of something more specific."

Alpine is still set to
Posting Character Set = UTF-8

I do not need to use Alpine if I continue to fail to configure it to be compatible with BOFH.team. I can agree to use a different news client. So
I attempted Tin . . .

Insomnia 24/7 recently installed Tin but it failed to show non-ASCII (e.g. French) characters from fr.* even though I did
export MM_CHARSET=UTF-8
and
I set
utf8_graphics=ON
in ~/.tin/tinrc and I set
undeclared_charset=UTF-8
in ~/.tin/attributes

utf8_graphics=ON
is not working with this copy: e.g. it uses ASCII for ... and ->
and Tin forcefully rewrote
utf8_graphics=OFF
into tinrc. This copy seems to be not built with UTF-8 support or linked
to a UTF-8 library. Alpine; Emacs; BASH; etc. on Insomnia 24/7 are
compatible with UTF-8.

Debian provides those alternatives for Insomnia 24/7 to Alpine and Tin: nn
and sinntp and slrn

I could probably compile and run another alternative news client if it
would make BOFH.team happier.

What is the best option? Thanks.

This version of Tin is as follows . . .

/home/gloucester $ echo $LANG
UTF-8
/home/gloucester $ tin -V
Can't set the specified locale!
Version: tin 2.6.2 release 20221225 ("Pittyvaich") Dec 28 2022 01:48:23 Platform:
OS-Name = "linux-gnu"
Compiler:
CC = "gcc"
CFLAGS = "-g -g -O2
-ffile-prefix-map=/build/tin-gblEve/tin-2.6.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security"
CPP = "gcc -E"
CPPFLAGS = "-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -I/usr/include/libcanlock-3" Linker and Libraries:
LD = "gcc"
LDFLAGS = "-g -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now"
LIBS = "-lcanlock -lssl -lcrypto -lncursesw -ltinfo
-lpcre2-8 -luu -licuuc"
TLS = "OpenSSL 3.0.17 1 Jul 2025"
PCRE = "10.42 2022-12-11"
Characteristics:
+DEBUG +NNTP_ABLE +NNTPS_ABLE -NO_POSTING -BROKEN_LISTGROUP +XHDR_XREF
-HAVE_FASCIST_NEWSADMIN +ENABLE_IPV6 -HAVE_COREFILE
-NO_SHELL_ESCAPE -DISABLE_PRINTING -DONT_HAVE_PIPING -NO_ETIQUETTE
+HAVE_LONG_FILE_NAMES +APPEND_PID +HAVE_MH_MAIL_HANDLING
+HAVE_ISPELL -HAVE_METAMAIL +HAVE_SUM
+HAVE_COLOR -HAVE_PGP -HAVE_PGPK +HAVE_GPG
+MIME_BREAK_LONG_LINES +MIME_STRICT_CHARSET +CHARSET_CONVERSION
+MULTIBYTE_ABLE -NO_LOCALE -USE_LONG_ARTICLE_NUMBERS
+USE_CANLOCK -EVIL_INSIDE -FORGERY -TINC_DNS -ENFORCE_RFC1034
-REQUIRE_BRACKETS_IN_DOMAIN_LITERAL -ALLOW_FWS_IN_NEWSGROUPLIST
/home/gloucester $
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Nioclbs P<l Cailebn de Ghloucester wrote:

[...]
This version of Tin is as follows . . .

/home/gloucester $ echo $LANG
UTF-8
/home/gloucester $ tin -V
Can't set the specified locale!

Looks like there is an error in your locale configuration.
You can list the available locales with:
|
| $ locale -a

Look for something like "en_US.utf8".

POSIX defines the environment variable LANG as a fallback: <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08_02>

You can set the environment variable LC_ALL to test if tin understands
the locale name you selected from the list above.
If it works, you can create a more detailed configuration, if required.
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Herr Michael B|nuerle hat hilfsbereit geschrieben: |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|rCR[. . .] |

/home/gloucester $ echo $LANG |
UTF-8 |
/home/gloucester $ tin -V |
Can't set the specified locale! |

| |
|Looks like there is an error in your locale configuration. |
|You can list the available locales with: |
|| |
|| $ locale -a |
| |
|Look for something like "en_US.utf8". |
| |
|[. . .] |
| |
|You can set the environment variable LC_ALL to test if tin understands|
|the locale name you selected from the list above.rCL | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

Sehr geehrter Herr B|nuerle!,

Sie haben recht! Danke! Ein gl|+ckliches neues Jahr!

Mit freundlichen Gr|+|fen.


/home/gloucester $ echo $LC_ALL

/home/gloucester $ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
C.utf8
POSIX
en_US.utf8
/home/gloucester $ export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
/home/gloucester $ emacs .tin/tinrc #Resetting utf8_graphics=ON
because if Tin fails to use UTF-8 then Tin forcefully changes
~/.tin/tinrc to have utf8_graphics=OFF instead!
/home/gloucester $ tin -r -g Paganini.BOFH.team
Reading config file...
/home/gloucester $ emacs .tin/tinrc #Setting
mm_network_charset=UTF-8 because Tin said: "Warning: Posting is in
UTF-8 and contains characters which are not in your selected MM_NETWORK_CHARSET: ISO-8859-15. These characters will be replaced by
'?' if you post this article unchanged. To avoid garbling your
article please either edit it and remove those characters or change
the setting of MM_NETWORK_CHARSET to a suitable value for your
posting via the M)enu option."
/home/gloucester $ tin -r -g Paganini.BOFH.team


(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
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