JR wrote:
Verizon is dumping Usenet at the end of this month. Last time I tried
to renew with news.individual.de, they asked for more information than I
wanted to give them.

Other alternatives?

When ameritech dropped Usenet I started using eternal-september.org

It's free, it's a real nntp feed (not a web page) and it works well
enough for me and did I mention it's free ?

I sometimes get a "Too many connections" error message during
European prime time (eternal-september is based in Germany) but
there are times when being unable to read or write to roff is a
feature not a bug. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry