From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

This is a sincere thank you to all the free NNTP server operators.

I am speaking only for myself. None of the people I mention have endorsed
this message. I name them solely out of respect for their long-standing contributions to the free Usenet ecosystem. I may have missed some.

For decades, a small number of dedicated volunteers have kept free NNTP servers and their peering links alive. They built the infrastructure, maintained the feeds, fixed the breakage, absorbed the abuse, and kept the doors open long after most sane people would have walked away. Without
them, free access to Usenet would have disappeared years ago.

This work was not limited to running servers. It also depended on the
quiet, often invisible labor of peering: arranging feeds, maintaining
links, negotiating connections, and keeping articles flowing across a
network that has no central authority. Peering is the glue that holds
Usenet together, and the people who handled it deserve recognition for
keeping the entire system functioning.

I want to express my sincere thanks to the public faces behind these long-running free servers and the peering work that supported them:

Paolo Amoroso (Aioe)
Roman Racine, Alexander Bartolich, Sabine Schultz (Albasani)
Daniel and Monika Weber, Benjamin Gufler (Solani)
Steen Jensen (Sunsite)
Steve Crook (Mixmin)
Alex de Joode (Dizum)
Ivo Gandolfo (Paganini)
Ray Banana (Eternal September)
Jesse Rehmer (Blueworld)
Retro Guy (NovaBBS, RIP)
Davide Cavion (Narkive)
Marco Mook (peering and backbone work)

I certainly have missed some, but I do not speak for any of them.
I simply respect what they all have built. For everyone. For history.

Their work has given countless people around the globe a no-cost way to endeavor to read, learn, explore, and communicate freely. Their efforts deserve recognition, and their efforts deserve better than the noise that
now dominates this group.

Thank you all, for keeping the free.newsservers communication system alive
for as long as you have. Your efforts mattered then, and they still matter.
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Bofh forbids crosspost/f'up to news.admin.peering so this is a multipost.
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In article <10r7dqm$2tmud$1@paganini.bofh.team>
Anonymous Contributor <anon@example.net> wrote:

This is a sincere thank you to all the free NNTP server operators.

I am speaking only for myself. None of the people I mention have endorsed this message. I name them solely out of respect for their long-standing contributions to the free Usenet ecosystem. I may have missed some.

For decades, a small number of dedicated volunteers have kept free NNTP servers and their peering links alive. They built the infrastructure, maintained the feeds, fixed the breakage, absorbed the abuse, and kept the doors open long after most sane people would have walked away. Without
them, free access to Usenet would have disappeared years ago.

This work was not limited to running servers. It also depended on the
quiet, often invisible labor of peering: arranging feeds, maintaining
links, negotiating connections, and keeping articles flowing across a
network that has no central authority. Peering is the glue that holds
Usenet together, and the people who handled it deserve recognition for keeping the entire system functioning.

I want to express my sincere thanks to the public faces behind these long-running free servers and the peering work that supported them:

Paolo Amoroso (Aioe)
Roman Racine, Alexander Bartolich, Sabine Schultz (Albasani)
Daniel and Monika Weber, Benjamin Gufler (Solani)
Steen Jensen (Sunsite)
Steve Crook (Mixmin)
Alex de Joode (Dizum)
Ivo Gandolfo (Paganini)
Ray Banana (Eternal September)
Jesse Rehmer (Blueworld)
Retro Guy (NovaBBS, RIP)
Davide Cavion (Narkive)
Marco Mook (peering and backbone work)

I certainly have missed some, but I do not speak for any of them.
I simply respect what they all have built. For everyone. For history.

Their work has given countless people around the globe a no-cost way to endeavor to read, learn, explore, and communicate freely. Their efforts deserve recognition, and their efforts deserve better than the noise that
now dominates this group.

Thank you all, for keeping the free.newsservers communication system alive for as long as you have. Your efforts mattered then, and they still matter.

+1

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From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 05:35:16 +0000
Anonymous Contributor <anon@example.net> wrote:

This is a sincere thank you to all the free NNTP server operators.

I am speaking only for myself. None of the people I mention have
endorsed this message. I name them solely out of respect for their long-standing contributions to the free Usenet ecosystem. I may have
missed some.

For decades, a small number of dedicated volunteers have kept free
NNTP servers and their peering links alive. They built the
infrastructure, maintained the feeds, fixed the breakage, absorbed
the abuse, and kept the doors open long after most sane people would
have walked away. Without them, free access to Usenet would have
disappeared years ago.

This work was not limited to running servers. It also depended on the
quiet, often invisible labor of peering: arranging feeds, maintaining
links, negotiating connections, and keeping articles flowing across a network that has no central authority. Peering is the glue that holds
Usenet together, and the people who handled it deserve recognition
for keeping the entire system functioning.

I want to express my sincere thanks to the public faces behind these long-running free servers and the peering work that supported them:

Paolo Amoroso (Aioe)
Roman Racine, Alexander Bartolich, Sabine Schultz (Albasani)
Daniel and Monika Weber, Benjamin Gufler (Solani)
Steen Jensen (Sunsite)
Steve Crook (Mixmin)
Alex de Joode (Dizum)
Ivo Gandolfo (Paganini)
Ray Banana (Eternal September)
Jesse Rehmer (Blueworld)
Retro Guy (NovaBBS, RIP)
Davide Cavion (Narkive)
Marco Mook (peering and backbone work)

I certainly have missed some, but I do not speak for any of them.
I simply respect what they all have built. For everyone. For history.

Their work has given countless people around the globe a no-cost way
to endeavor to read, learn, explore, and communicate freely. Their
efforts deserve recognition, and their efforts deserve better than
the noise that now dominates this group.

Thank you all, for keeping the free.newsservers communication system
alive for as long as you have. Your efforts mattered then, and they
still matter.

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/looking-for-an-open-nntp-usenet-server-just-for-text.34592/
Perico
Veteran Member
JoinedApr 15, 2007
Messages682
LocationBarcelona
Nov 16, 2012
#1
Hello all.
My ISP years ago pulled the plug on their NNTP Usernet server. I have
since been using the free and open NNTP server "news.x-privat.org", but
it seems it has died. https://groups.google.com/g/can.internet.highspeed/c/ZI4YU4yXHZg
Tony
unread,
Jul 31, 2007, 12:23:54rC>PM
to
Shad O'Shay says
freeteranews is really getting unreliable lately. It seems there's more
days you can't post with it than days you can post with it. I wonder
what's with that?
Maybe the guy who keeps posting that freetera = poop is right after all.
Sounds to me like you just have to wait for something that works to come
along. X-private used to be the best. They didn't censor anything
(nothing) i sure hope X-private makes a comeback. So does Chuck. I'm
using aoie right now but it isn't very good for crossposting to more than
3 newsgroups. Maybe Avi Freeman can come up with something for posting
and reading newsgroups. A lot of people have been complaining to Avi that
they are being "frogged".
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