Some free servers to try:

http://usenet-news.net/

http://www.news.astraweb.com/

www.teranews.com

http://www.motzarella.org/

www.aioe.org


Art wrote:
| Just received a notice from Verizon that starting June 24th all but
| the big "8" (which doesn't include ALT) will be blocked.
|
| Here is a excerpt from their email:
|
|
| Dear Verizon Online Customer,
|
| As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about
| some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup
| service.
|
| On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to
| only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are
| listed below. The
| 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available.
| Users will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups
| using our Newsgroup service.
|
| comp.*
| humanities.*
| misc.*
| news.*
| rec.*
| sci.*
| soc.*
| talk.*
|
| More details regarding the Big 8 newsgroup hierarchies is available
| at: http://www.big-8.org/.