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Anyone out there know a good public news server? Rogers is dropping
Nttp support on the 15th. Would like to be able to continue usenet.

I confess that this question - as well as the very existence of
stand-alone news servers - confuses me, because I thought all ISPs
provide usenet access as part of the package. Evidently I'm wrong, but
what's the whole story?