Open-News-Network e.V.

Open News Network e.V. is a German group ("Eingetragener Verein"). It is a network both in the technological and in the social sense. It aims to provide open, non-commercial access to text based usenet. Membership is constituted by support of the project. Support may be in the form of active collaboration, allocation of resources, or both.

History

 * 21 Feb 2005 Posting in de.comm provider usenet Message-ID: 
 * 8 Mar 2005 Joern Bredereck announced the idea.
 * 12 May 2007 society according to German law incorporated.

Usenet
Open-News-Network e.V provides traditional Usenet groups."It is a Germany based cooperative network of Usenet enthusiasts who run their servers on otherwise unused resources."