title: Open-News-Network e.V.
text: # 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: <pan.2005.02.21.01.12.52.335900@familieknaak.de>
  * 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."
  
  