At Supernews, we fully respect our customers' rights and privacy and anonymity.

Articles posted by individual account holders do not contain an NNTP-Posting-Host header. Our servers do not insert any information about the true identity of the poster. If a customer chooses to configure his/her newsreader in such a way as to conceal their identity, we do nothing to stand in the way of that.

We do not monitor content. Individual users can post freely, without concerns about censorship so long as their activity is not an abuse of the system or a technical interference with the operation of the system or the operation of Usenet as a whole. Illegal content can of course be dealt with by the proper authorities. We are, however, part of an international system in Usenet, used by people in many different countries with different laws (though our servers are subject to the laws of the United States and the state of California), and we do not consider ourselves qualified to judge the legality of any content. (That's what all those lawyers are for.)

Disruption of newsgroups, or forging of real email addresses or domain names, will be dealt with, as a technical abuse of Usenet. We absolutely do not, however, monitor the content of user posts. (It would be impossible to do so anyway as we get well in excess of ten thousand user posts per day.)

Supernews only maintains logs to make sure we are providing the best possible service in the areas of Usenet that our customers are reading. Logs are only required by our systems administrators so that we can monitor overall usage volume and activity for particular newsgroups. The actually content of our user messages or of the newsgroups are of no concern to us.

Our logs are completely private and are available only to our systems administration staff. Supernews is committed to improving the quality of Usenet and to supporting online civil rights through the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We will not release any information about customers to anyone unless we are required to do so by a court order. Not the threat of a court order -- actual papers. Online usage logs do expire and get deleted after a time (though a court order could require us to keep them indefinitely). So as long as you stay within the law, your anonymity is assured.

Supernews has never, and will never sell user account information to third parties for marketing efforts. We hate spam as much as you do and only request demographic information for our own records.

For other questions regarding Supernews policy, please feel free to contact Supernewspr@suprenews.com. Supernews supports the Electronic Frontier Foundation as the voice for rights of users of online technologies.