These days, you join the Usenet by posting in news.peering and saying "I want to peer with somebody", or just emailing the Eternal September folks: http://www.e

These days, you join the Usenet by posting in news.peering and saying "I want to peer with somebody", or just emailing the Eternal September folks: http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=peering http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=peering You configure both configure your servers to exchange messages and then... they exchange messages :) It's good practice to have a couple peers, in case one goes offline or doesn't carry the groups you're interested in -- or filters things you might want. I run NoCeM on-spool and have stricter-than-normal CleanFeed rules, which translated from Usenet admin speak means my server drops a lot of spam and garbage posts, and if you want those you'll have to get them from another peer.