On Mar 1, 4:56 pm, "Peter R." wrote:
Giganews provides Usenet on port 80 (the same as http), or what I call the
"work" firewall buster, and you could get an account for relatively cheap if
all you do is download text. With that you could then get a free, robust,
client-based news reader to filter the nonsense.

Well, you learn something every day, don't you????

I've had a giganews account for a while now. I didn't know they
allowed port 80.

It will feel like getting rid of a lingering cold. Thanks Peter!

Marco