Tera News provides free uncensored, unlogged, NNTP news server access to all newsgroups, including all of the binary newsgroups.

Update: Please add @teranews.com to the end of your user name in your news client config. Our new servers require this.

New Unlimited Packages: We now offer unlimited accounts for $12/month (6 month plan) or $14.95 (monthly). Unlimited users get access to the same servers as normal accounts.

Want to try our servers without opening an account? Configure your news client to use public.teranews.com with no user name or password. You get full read access (no posting). Note the public server has limits on download speed as well as the total number of users at once. Our pay servers have no such limits. NOTICE: This beta test server is offline currently.

• No censorship
• No logging of your reading
• No throttling of your download speed
• Anonymous posting
• Firewall counter measures
• UNLIMITED POSTING!

And best of all, it's FREE*!!!

Yes, we are offering commercial quality Usenet news access absolutely FREE*. Click on the 'Create Account' button to create your own free account ($3.95 one time setup fee) that allows posting or use public.teranews.com without an account (no posting & speed capped). You can use any standard news client you choose to read and post to any newsgroup. If you don't have a news client yet check out our NNTP client page.

What is Usenet?

Usenet is a world-wide distributed discussion system. It consists of a set of "newsgroups" with names that are classified hierarchically by subject. "Articles" or "messages" are "posted" to these newsgroups by people on computers with the appropriate software -- these articles are then broadcast to other interconnected computer systems via a wide variety of networks.

Taken from: What is Usenet FAQ.

How to get started?

To start enjoying this wonderful tool we call the Usenet you need a two things: a news client and a news server. Most people already have a news client installed on their computer and they just don't know it. Netscape and Internet Explorer both have a built in news client, but if you don't like the browser based clients have a look at our NNTP client page. Next you need a news server to read news from. That's not hard either, just create yourself an account on our server, nntp.teranews.com or free.teranews.com (50MB/day accounts).

You need to configure your news client to use your new Tera News account. Look for the 'news server' settings or preference panel. You will need to enter the server name, user name, and password. The server name is news.teranews.com or free.teranews.com (for 50MB/day users) and you picked your own user name and password during the account creation process. You may also have to select an option that says "My server requires a ". Save and exit the configuration panel and your news client should download a group list. It may take several minutes to download the group list as there are several thousand newsgroups available. Once it has completed you will be able to read articles. download files, and even post your own articles for others to read.

* You can use public.teranews.com without a user name or password. For more information on the public server click here.