Privacy:
This server does not place your ip address or name in the headers of messages. There is a ‘posting-account’ listed in Injection-Info that is obfuscated, so no personally identifiable information is shared.
We do not share any user data outside of our servers.
Abuse:
Spamming, trolling, forging etc. will all be addressed once the admin becomes aware this is taking place. You may notify admin@i2pn2.org with issues.
Forging complaints must be sent by the one who is being forged.
Articles or users will not be removed for political/social/etc. opinions you don’t agree with. Please use your news reader’s filters for articles or users you do not wish to see.
Posting Restrictions:
Posting requires authentication. No authentication is required for reading articles.
Limits are placed on number of groups in crossposts, and all articles are filtered through a spam filter.
Limits on the number of posts per hour may be imposed. If you reach this limit, check your newsreader logs to see the amount of time left before posting may continue. (it will be in the nntp response).
This limit is based on a “rolling” hour, so when the oldest article drops from the hour, another post may be sent.
Other restrictions may also be imposed.
NoCeM:
i2pn.org sends NoCeM notices to news.lists.filters. These messages contain the Message-IDs of what is mostly abuse originating from Google Groups. This was started during the ‘Thai’ spam flood of 2023, and continues to now.
The filtering is handled by a highly modified configuration of SpamAssassin, and once initial testing of a few weeks was over, seems to do a reasonably good job of avoiding false positives.
NoCeM is NOT used to censor speech or punish anyone. It is simply there to help keep the newsgroups free of abuse, and allow actual conversation.
i2pn2.org also provides a NoCeM search feature (in main menu above), to search by Message-ID of articles that you may feel have be incorrectly identified as ‘spam’, allowing you to see what NoCeM source has listed the article.
Hostnames:
i2pn.org: This is the main peering server. No reader access to this server news.i2pn2.org: Main server for reading/posting.
news.novabbs.org: Server for peering/reading/posting in i2p or tor network.
rocksolidbbs.com is a Synchronet BBS install that may appear in headers.
Paths:
You may see several servers listed in Path headers:
i2pn.org, i2pn2.org, news.novabbs.org are as described above.
rocksolid2 and rocksolid3 are internal nntp servers that pre-date public peering.
We have maintained these hostnames internally, and they will appear in Path headers.
Filtering:
Incoming messages are filtered using Cleanfeed and Spamassassin. Some NoCeM messages are also honored. This is meant to keep groups useable, and is NOT meant to censor speech.
Support Discussion:
Use rocksolid.nodes.help for discussion and support for i2pn2 and novabbs.