Dill pickles wrote:
> Aioe.org News Server
> User's manual
> Service description
> Terms of Use
> Privacy policy
> Abuse report
> Service usage limits
> Contacts
> aioe.* hierarchy
> Special headers
> FAQs
> Documentation
> An introduction about free NNTP servers
> Peering data
> How to setup a feed with aioe.org
> aioe.* technical data
> Leafnode & aioe.org howto
> Access restrictions
> Site map
> Tools
> Cancel a message
> Rejected articles
> Search for articles
> Search for groups
> Statistics about groups
> Software
> Postfilter
> Statistics
> System activity
> Feeds
> Antispam report
> Real time charts
> Users
> Server status
> Banned IP addresses
> Service description
> General information
> Service
> Documentation
> Restrictions on use
> Privacy
> How to connect
>
>
> 1. General Information
> Aioe.org hosts a large public news server which doesn’t require
> registration or authentication to be used. This service is mostly designed
> for sporadic USENET readers which don’t need a premium service and for
> those who can’t get a more expensive service to read news. Since this site
> doesn’t require any kind of registration, no clients’ personal data are
> collected or detained by us. All services are provided for free by a group
> of volunteers who spend time and money in this project without earning
> anything.
>
>
>
> 2. Service
> This site provides a standard USENET server which can be accessed without
> authentication from any IP address. Both Transport Layer Security (TLS)
> and SSL are fully supported. Due the lack of any authentication mechanism,
> the users’ ability to post articles is subjected to several limits which
> prevent the site from being abused. At the same time, all messages sent
> through Aioe.org hide the sender's IP address which is stored only inside
> our systems logs. See our terms of use for detailed information.
>
>
>
> 3. Documentation
> A lot of documentation describes how this service works. All the
> information needed by clients for the daily use of the service is
> available in the user's manual. Technical documentation is contained in
> another section of the site. Those who need to contact the administrators
> of this service should consult the contact page in order to know how to
> get in touch with them.
>
>
>
> 4. Restrictions on use
> Each IP address is authorized to post maximum 40 messages per day and the
> posting rights are suspended for the following 24 hours if more than three
> messages are rejected in a day.
>
> Each post must be sent to less than three groups (crosspost) and each one
> can include at most three followup groups. Maximum allowed size is 32 KB
> per article and 2KB per header.
>
> Only four concurrent connections per IP address on nntp.aioe.org and 2
> ones on news.aioe.org are allowed and 600 connections per day are accepted
> from each IP address before being banned.
>
> All the thresholds in the use of system resources that users must comply
> with are shown in the documentation pages.
>
> Aioe.org is a text only USENET site: binary groups are not carried because
> they consume too much bandwidth and are often sources of illegal material.
> Currently, this server makes available almost all text groups which are
> publicy fed through USENET plus some local hierarchies but many of these
> groups are empty because nobody uses them and they’re mostly kept for
> future references.
>
>
>
> 5. Privacy
> Aioe.org neither collects nor harvests personal data. As required by
> german law the system logs are kept for 12 months, then deleted. These
> logs report only the sender’s IP address of each locally posted article
> and some information about the groups read by each user. Aioe.org strives
> to keep these data reserved and to avoid any disclosure of clients’
> personal information to third parties. Those who need to know what exactly
> is logged by our servers should read the logging policy.
>
>
>
> 6. How to connect
> The main server address is nntp.aioe.org and several ports can be used to
> query the server: 119 and 80 without encryption or with TLS, 563, 443 and
> 22 with the SSL layer. Non-standard ports are useful for those who are
> behind a fascist firewall configured to close every port execept the
> HHTP/HTTPS/SSH ones. Aioe.org hosts also a secondary NNTP site
> news.aioe.org in order to assure the service even if the main host goes
> offline. The two servers have identical article numbers and USENET
> database content, so if those who need to switch to the backup server and
> can use port 119 or 563, merely changing the server name in their
> configuration may suffice.
>
>
> <https://news.aioe.org/manual/quickstart-guide/>
>

Still busted.