On Jul 20, 7:57*am, "Karl Townsend"
wrote:
My ISP dropped newsgroup support a year ago. So I got a block account from
Octanews.com * Almost free, I paid $4 for the first block and haven't used
it up yet.

it went down yesterday, back up now. It would be nice to have another news
server all set up. Any recommendations? I'm not paying a monthly charge.
Block billing is OK

Karl

Despite the badmouth Google Groups actually works quite well.