Usenet/NNTP Archive and Peering Services

Offering Free Access to over 20 Years of Usenet Text Retention and Historical Content

Archival Status:

- Big8 (comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.*) 
newsgroups from 2003+
- alt.* newsgroups from 2003+
- linux.* newsgroups from 2003+
- Regional edm.*, de.*, fr.*, nl.*, it.*, uk.*, us.* newsgroups from 2003+

Accessing the Usenet service:

Configure your news client to connect to news.blueworldhosting.com.
(usenet.blueworldhosting.com is used for peering and this website only)

Connections are available on port 119 and 563. Port 119 is unencrypted and 563 
is encrypted with TLS. We recommend using TLS.

If you wish to post, please e-mail for an account.

Terms Of Service:

- We operate in the United States and abide by U.S. Law and Regulations.
- No Spam
- Be yourself. Forging is prohibited.
- Cancels are only accepted for articles posted from your account.
- Excessive use of resources will result in IP blocking. Do not configure
our server in sabnzbd, you will not find binaries here.

Peering

We peer openly - send us an e-mail for a feed. We don't mind leaf nodes, or
non-realtime peering, but let us know so we can configure appropriately.

Pathname:               usenet.blueworldhosting.com
Accept From:            usenet.blueworldhosting.com
Send To:                usenet.blueworldhosting.com
Location:               St. Louis, MO USA
Port:                   119
Hierarchies:  		*
Max. Article Size:      1MB
Software:		Diablo 6 - Peering / INN 2.8 - Readers
Hardware:		Dell PowerEdge R440 - 256GB RAM
			Plenty of NVMe and SSD storage
Network Connectivity:	1Gbps Fiber to Hurricane Electric
Active Peers:		41
Feeder Statistics:	https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com/diablo

Sample Diablo Configuration

label blueworldhosting
    host        usenet.blueworldhosting.com
    addgroup    *
    delgroup	control.*
    delgroup	unidata.*
    maxsize	1000k
    maxparallel  10
    rtflush
    realtime    notify
end

Sample INN Configuration

newsfeeds:
usenet.blueworldhosting.com\
       :*,!unidata.*,!control.*,!junk/!local\
       :Aj,Tm,<1000000:innfeed!

incoming.conf:
peer usenet.blueworldhosting.com {
        hostname: usenet.blueworldhosting.com
}

innfeed.conf:
peer usenet.blueworldhosting.com {
        ip-name: usenet.blueworldhosting.com
}