BlueWorldHosting Usenet/NNTP Archive and Peering

Access over 45 Years of Text Articles and Historically Significant Content

The most complete Usenet text archive in existence (to our knowledge).

Over 1.1 billion articles consuming over 5TB of storage.

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 all timestamps
are 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.

The news.blueworldhosting.com server 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 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.

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 honored 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
NNTP Software:		Custom Diablo - Peering / INN 2.8 - Readers
Operating Systems:	SmartOS, OmniOS, and FreeBSD
Cluster Hardware:	Dell PowerEdge R440
			Dell PowerEdge R640
			NVMe, SSD, and spinning rust
Network Connectivity:	1Gbps Fiber
Feeder Statistics:	https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com/diablo

Sample Diablo Configuration

label blueworldhosting
    host        usenet.blueworldhosting.com
    addgroup    *
    delgroup	control.*
    delgroup	unidata.*
    maxsize	1000k
    arttype	!binary
    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
}