Usenet/NNTP Archive and Peering Services

Offering Free Access to over 45 Years of Usenet Text Retention and Historical Content

We have the most complete Usenet text archive in existence (to our knowledge).

Over 5 terrabytes containing over 1.1 billion articles.

Our archives begin in February 1981, thanks to the Uztoo archives.
(https://gunkies.org/wiki/Netnews_archive)

Remaining content comes from archive.org and pulling from long
retention servers.

The archive is far from "complete" as much has been lost to time.

There are periods of the archive, roughly 1995-2000, where valid Date
headers were not present. The dates are correct, but they contain
timestamps of midnight UTC:

  Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0000

The archive contains a lot of spam, but we're working on a filtered 
version of the archive.

The news.blueworldhosting.com server that has been in existence before
August 2026 will soon be retired in favor of the filtered archive, once
it is available.

Accessing the Usenet service:

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

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

Posting is not allowed on archive.usenet.blueworldhosting.com.

The server news.blueworldhosting.com that has been in use by users for posting
will be retired soon. It will be replaced with a filtered and slimmed down 
version of the full archive.

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
Active Peers:		43
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
}