Mailing list "announce" missing Security Advisories?

grahamperrin said:
So some servers silently fail to receive news?
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Yes, see completion.

My experience with free news servers dates back over a decade, and text based groups even further back. Free usenet used to be a best effort service and par2 had to be used regularly for binaries. Providing 10% par2 files was more or less the rule. Less popular groups weren't even indexed.
Because usenet grows somewhat exponentially, free usenet gets more expensive to keep running, paid usenet keeps getting better and more affordable to use. So currently few free ones are left.

grahamperrin said:
can anyone suggest a freely available NNTP server that's more likely to receive the security advisories and so on?
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Long, long ago, internet providers also provided usenet access to their customers. No idea if they still do.
Eternal september is according to their site only indexing text based news groups, so I'd think they provide proper completion.
Just did a search on their website for FreeBSD and lots of groups showed up but announce has - if it's up to date - zero posts. mailing.freebsd.announce has apparently 346 posts, but on my news-server mailing.freebsd.* doesn't have any posts past 2016.
 
A-4 said:
Long, long ago, internet providers also provided usenet access to their customers. No idea if they still do.
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They rarely do nowadays, at least here in the Netherlands. I think the only notable exception is XS4All, they still give you access to their "newszilla" usenet servers (has a very high retention, even on the binary groups) with their internet accounts. But I see that KPN (company that bought XS4ALL a while back) will switch it off some time this year.
 
mendenlama said:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
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Thanks, I forgot that Google can be an interface.

In addition to security advisories and errata notices:
 
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