OpenUsenet

Welcome to OpenUsenet. This is primarily the home of the Diablo newsfeeding and newsreading software, but we include a bunch of useful usenet links.

Links to Usenet Directories:

Open Directory Usenet List.

Open Directory Usenet Server Software List
Usenet References (Landfield)

Standards:

Usenet Article Standard Update (Usefor) archives
RFC 977 - Network News Transfer Protocol

RFC 1036 - Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages

RFC 1123 - Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support

RFC 2076 - Common Internet Message Headers

RFC 2980 - Common NNTP Extensions

DRAFT - Common NNTP Implementations (old)

DRAFT - Network News Transfer Protocol - update for RFC 977

DRAFT - News Article Format

DRAFT - NHNS - Netnews Hierarchy Names System

DRAFT - TLS extensions to NNTP

An even better list of documents

Standards Discussions:

DRAFT - Network News Transfer Protocol - update

RFC - Common NNTP Extensions