news.bbs.nz

Welcome to Agency News - a Usenet News system located in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Agency News is run as a not-for-profit hobby and offers free access to text-only Usenet News.

We invite you to point your newsreader at news.bbs.nz port 119 for read-only access to all of our available hierarchies including the New Zealand nz.* newsgroups.

Un-authenticated connections can post to the agency.test, agency.chat and nz.test newsgroups. Full posting access to all available hierarchies requires an authenticated login.

If you are looking for Agency BBS either visit bbs.nz via your web browser or use your ANSI friendly Telnet client (e.g. Netrunner at mysticbbs.com) and point it to agency.bbs.nz on port 23.

./server status

• Server Status --- NNTP inflow from peers, server status etc.


• Innfeed Status --- NNTP outflow to peers stats


• Cleanfeed Antispam Status --- Anti-spam stats

./reports + peering

• Daily Reports --- Review past server logs / activity


• Peering Information --- Want to peer with Agency News?

./related links

Usenet

• Usenet --- Wikipedia article about Usenet

Newsreader Software

A selection of Usenet news readers that our users read/post with. Got a suggestion to add here? Contact us.

• Pan --- Pan is a Usenet newsreader that's good at both text and binaries. FREE [windows | linux]
• MicroPlanet Gravity --- Open Source Usenet News Reader for Windows. FREE [windows]
• Claws Mail --- Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+. FREE [windows | linux]
• Forté Agent Newsreader --- Forté Agent Newsreader offers email and news reading. PAID [windows]
• Usenet newsreaders --- A list of free and commercial newsreader software options [windows | linux]

Retro Computing

If you're interested in Usenet then you'll enjoy exploring Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). They are still alive and kicking in the 21st Century!

• Agency BBS --- New Zealand based Bulletin Board System (BBS)
• fsxNet --- [F]un, [S]imple, [E]xperimental Network
• Mystic BBS --- BBS software well worth trying (Windows/Linux/OSX/ARM (Raspberry Pi))
• Mystic Guy --- Easy to follow YouTube tutorials for installing Mystic BBS software