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• BasicNews

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/basicnews/
  A simple news server for Linux, meant to be used as an internal server.

• Diablo

  http://www.openusenet.org/
  Open source newsfeeding and newsreading software. Runs on most flavours of Unix.

• DNews

  http://www.netwinsite.com/dnews.htm
  Usenet NNTP news server for most flavours of Unix, as well as Win9x/NT. Handles full newsfeeds while conserving system resources. Can use Suck feed option. Anti-spam features. Academic licensing also available.

• Ftp.tin.org: Server Software Repository

  ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/servers/
  Hosts several Usenet server packages including Leafnode, C news, Diablo and INN, and also very old applications like A news and B news for historical purposes.

• Hamster Playground

  http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/
  Free newsserver and mailserver software for single computers and small family or company networks. Developed from the same source as Hamster Classic. Source available. [Windows]

• Hamster with news.individual.net

  http://news.individual.net/configuration/hamster-2.1-win-en.php
  Short tutorial with screenshots on the configuration and use of Hamster with individual.net news server. May also be helpful for other servers.

• Highwinds Software

  http://www.highwinds-software.com/
  Offering several products for discussion software: Cyclone News Router, Typhoon News Server and Twister Discussion Server. All products run on a Unix/Linux/Solaris type of operating system.

• INN: The InterNetNews Package

  http://www.isc.org/software/inn
  Complete open source Usenet system. De facto standard for handling news routing, news spool and serving the spool to customers. Available for various versions of Unix from the Internet Software Consortium. How-To's and mailing lists.

• Leafnode

  http://www.leafnode.org/
  Easy to use, open source, IPv6-capable NNTP news proxy for Unix/Linux systems, designed for small networks.

• Mib Software NewsrA+e

  http://www.mibsoftware.com/userkt/newsrate/
  A subscription service to measure how well your newsserver is receiving articles. Benchmark against other servers to determine whether you are receiving and delivering "full feed" Usenet content in the groups you carry.

• Newsstar

  http://newsstar.sourceforge.net/
  A multithreaded NNTP transport designed to transfer Usenet articles as quickly as possible between a local server and multiple remote servers, with score-based killfiles. Open source software, supports INN, s-news and sn.

• NNTPRelay

  ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/servers/nntprelay/
  The only carrier-class news router for Windows NT. Freely available and redistributable. Also available from the same authors is the freely available news server program "Tortoise" for Windows NT.

• Papercut

  http://pessoal.org/papercut/
  Open source news server written in Python. Its main objective is to integrate existing web based message board software, like Phorum which is supported, with a Usenet front-end.

• Tortoise

  ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/servers/tortoise/
  Freely available news spool server for Windows NT, based on the NNTPRelay program from the same authors.

• Wikipedia: News Server

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_server
  Presentation of news servers and explanation of differences between transit, reader and hybrid (also called "sucking" or cache) servers.

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