January 2004

Specialized Public NNTP News Servers

Adobe adobeforums.com
AFV scale modelling news.track-link.net
Agfa news.agfa.com
Annex Cafe news.annexcafe.com
AOpen news.aopen.com.tw
A.S.P. shareware news.asp-shareware.org
Autodesk discussion.autodesk.com
Atrex news.1000years.com
BASIS news.basis.com
Borland newsgroups.borland.com
Cakewalk news.cakewalk.com
Checkpoint news.checkpoint.com
Circuit Cellar bbs.circuitcellar.com
Corel cnews.corel.com
Creative Labs news.creative.com
Crystal Reports news.cogniza.com
Data Dynamics news.datadynamics.com
dBASE news.dbase2000.com
DevX news.devx.com
Digital Metaphors news.digital-metaphors.com
Dolphin Smalltalk news.totallyobjects.com
DynDNS news.dyndns.org
eComStation news.ecomstation.nl
FamilyNet www.family-bbs.net
FiveWin news.fivetech.com
Forte Java fortenews.sun.com
Franconews news.franconews.org
Freshmeat news.freshmeat.net
Furrynet news.fur.com (login/pass: furry/furry)
Gateway customernews.gateway.com
Gibson Research news.grc.com
Gmane news.gmane.org
GoldMine gmnews.goldminesw.com
HammerSound news.silco.com
Hamster local server news.uni-x.net (login/pass: hamster/hamster)
IBM Java ncc.hursley.ibm.com
IBM Software news.software.ibm.com
ICQ news.icq.com
Intel intelforums.com
Jasc Public Betas news.jasc.com
JPsoftware jpsoft.media3.net
L-Space news.lspace.org
Lego lugnet.com
Linux sunsite.dk
Logos news.logos.com
Loki news.lokigames.com
Macromedia forums.macromedia.com
Microsoft msnews.microsoft.com
Mozilla news.mozilla.org
NetBeans news.netbeans.com
NetObjects news.netobjects.com
NetObjects Fusion news.gotfusion.com (password required)
NetObjects Fusion CoolMaps news.coolmaps.com
Netscape secnews.netscape.com (SSL secure)
NetWin news.netwinsite.com
Novell support-forums.novell.com
Opera Browser news.opera.no
OS2 news.consultron.ca
PalmOS developers news.palmos.com (password required)
PalmPilot software news.massena.com
Palmtops news.hplx.net (password required)
perl nntp.perl.org
PHP news.php.net
Pick databases news.picksource.com (password required)
POV-Ray news.povray.org
Quebec vhs.mine.nu
Redhat news.redhat.com
SciTech news.scitechsoft.com
Scouting news.scoutnet.org
SecureComp news.securecomp.org
SemWare news.semware.com
Serif news.serif.com
SFF Net news.sff.net
Sigma Designs news.sigmadesigns.com
SoftVelocity news.softvelocity.com
Sonicbox news.imband.com
SpamCop news.spamcop.net
Stardock news.stardock.com
StorageSoft news.storagesoft.com
StoreFront storefront.net
Superbase news.superbase.com
Sybase forums.sybase.com
Tin newsreader news.tin.org (mail2news)
Trumpet newsroom.trumpet.com.au
TurboPower news.turbopower.com
Veritas news.support.veritas.com
VMware news.vmware.com
WarLorDz BBS warlordz.darktech.org
WebDiscuss news.webdiscuss.com
WebGain news.webgain.com
WebLogic newsgroups.bea.com
Winnov news.winnov.com
Wise Installation news.wisesolutions.com
Ziersch Software forums.dhms.net
zImage news.zimage.com

Text only Usenet groups - posting allowed

France news.asynchrone.net (password required; few alt. groups)
Germany news.individual.net (password required)
Italy newsreader.mailgate.org (password required; no alt. groups)
Poland news.gazeta.pl (password required)

Read-only public news servers

China freenews.netfront.net
Illinois news.ripco.com (port 120)
Minnesota news.readfreenews.net (port 120 or 80)
New York dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu
United Kingdom pubnews.gradwell.net

Free news servers for alt.binaries groups

Minnesota biggulp.readfreenews.net (any port)
New York dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu (only 45 a.b. groups)

Other news server lists

NewzBot!
P.U.L.I.N.

Free web-based news reading

Google Groups
Mailgate
Syracuse University
NewsOne
GroupReader
Interbulletin
Easy Usenet
News2Web
Voila News (France)
GlobalNews (Italy)

Multi-server NNTP clients

Binary News Reaper
40tude Dialog
GrabIt
Hamster
NewsBin
NewsLeecher
NewsPlex
NewsPro
News Rover
Xnews