See also: Open Usenet Server
- newszilla6.xs4all.nl
- Allowed connections: 3.
- Data: 40+ Terabyte.
- Capped: 15 kB/sec each.
- You need IPv6.
- news.ipv6.scarlet-internet.nl
- Data: 4 Terabyte.
- You need IPv6.
- news.ipv6.estpak.ee
- You need IPv6.
- news.freenet.de
- Allowed connections: 4.
- You need to make an account at www.freenet.de and follow the instructions (in German) over there.
- GROUP command doesn’t work. Headers are not downloadable. Server reported to work with NZB.
- news.txucom.net
- Allowed connections: 6.
- Capped: 1,4 GB per day.
- Reported to be fast and lots of groups supported.
- corp.newsfeeds.com
- No information available.
- news.yottanews.com
- Allowed connections: 8.
- Capped: 1 GB per month.
- Usable as ‘fillserver’.
- You need to make an account at www.yottanews.com (http://www.yottanews.com:8080/freeaccount.php) and follow the instructions over there.
- biggulp.readfreenews.net
- Allowed connections: 2.
- Slow (4-6 kB/sec), hard to connect to, but complete and long retention.
- Usable as ‘fillserver’.
- cp-news.centix.net
- Allowed connections: 4.
- Supported newsgroups: a.b.cd.image(games)
- Reported as regulary incomplete.
- news.bubbanews.com
- 50 MB per day account
- Retention and speed reported good.
- Costs a one-time fee of $3.50. You need a debitcard/creditcard for this.
- news.teranews.com
- Allowed connections: 1
- Short retention, not very completed, but okay speed.
- news.wplus.net
- Reported as incomplete, not always online, but fast.
- news.free-newsservers.com
- 100 MB limit.
Related
- New free newsgroups (e.g. for testing purposes) are announced at alt.free.newsservers
- Newsparrot (http://www.newsparrot.com) – Search for free Usenet servers.
- Disenter (http://www.disenter.com) – Online version of Newsparrot.
- Snafu’s top 10 free Usenet server list (http://home.snafu.de/hweede/pulin.htm).
- Free Usenet server search engine (http://www.findolin.de).
- Newsservers (http://www.newsservers.net) – Yet another list + information.
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