On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:23:14 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Tom Littleton wrote:
cool. Google will work as a cheap substitute, now that Verizon is
kaput for Usenet groups.

If all I had to access Usenet was Google Groups I'd quit accessing
Usenet. When Ameritech pulled the plug on Usenet I signed on to the
free nntp server news.eternal-september.org. Works fine for me, I
have my Thunderbird newsreader and my killfiles and it's free.

I'll second the nod to eternal-september.org.

TC,
R