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Welcome to news.motzarella.org

news.motzarella.org is a private project providing free access to Usenet News. The server has a 100MBit connection to several Internet backbones and is integrated into the Usenet via more than 50 peers.

Free access to the news server

news.motzarella.org provides free read and write access to all newsgroups. It requires a registration that can be done online.

Please read the terms of use before you register.

Privacy

Our server does not publish any personal information about the user in posting headers that the user does not publish himself. In particular, the user's IP address is not visible to third parties.

Hierarchies and Groups

Apart from de.* (including de.alt.dateien.*) news.motzarella.org carries the Big 8, alt.* (approx. 8000 groups) and several regional hierarchies (more than 200). A list of available hierarchies can be found here.

For tests, information and support for users of news.motzarella.org the local hierarchy motzarella.* is open to unregistered users, too.

Retention is currently 2 years for de.*, 40 days for alt.* and 30 days for the Big 8 and other hierarchies.

UUCP batches

news.motzarella.org offers UUCP Batches on demand.

Please send email to peering (AT) motzarella (DOT) org

news.motzarella.org submits path information to the TOP1000 project daily

2008-08-01 12:52:41 Motzarella outage

Motzarella was completely offline from Thursday, July 31, 22:00 CEST until Friday, August 1, 13:00 CEST due to an unspecific hardware failure. Currently, the news spool is being rebuilt and the news server is expected to be back online at 14:00 CEST

2008-07-26 09:26:00 Newsgroups reloaded

Due to extremely high article counters about 400 newgroups have been reset today. So, if you do not see new articles in any of your subscribed groups, please unsubscribe and re-subscribe again.

2008-07-17 21:57:01 Bellsouth mail addresses

As AT&T also handles Bellsouth mail addresses, please do not use Bellsouth mail addresses for registration (see below).

2008-06-04 19:41:04 Connection limit for concurrent server connections

The number of concurrent server connections is limited to 4. Any connection requests in excess of this limit will receive a "400 Too many connections" error message. Please adjust your client settings accordingly.

2007-09-28 11:46:54 Anonymous complaints

Due to recent events I would like to point out that anonymous complaints (no full name and/or invalid mail address) will be ignored.

2007-09-23 21:57:01 AT&T mail addresses

AT&T uses a very "creative" blacklist and is utterly unresponsive to removal request. Please do not use att.net mail addresses for registration.

2007-02-19 21:21:04 TOR users

Users who would like to access Motzarella.org via TOR are kindly requested to send a mail to news( AT )motzarella( DOT )org.


Last modified: June 09 2008 06:37:41.Language: en Session: checked