Open News Network e.V. is a German group ("
Eingetragener Verein
An (; "registered association" or "incorporated association"), abbreviated (), is a legal status for a civil registration, registered voluntary association in Germany. While any group may be called a , registration as confers many legal bene ...
"). It is a network both in the technological and in the social sense. It aims to provide open,
non-commercial
A non-commercial (also spelled noncommercial) activity is an activity that is not carried out in the interest of Profit (economics), profit. The opposite is Commerce, commercial, something that primarily serves profit interests and is focused on bu ...
access to text based
usenet
Usenet (), a portmanteau of User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP, Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Elli ...
. 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."
References
External links
Official Website
Organisations based in Munich
Usenet free posting
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