Davey coughed up some electrons that declared:

Dave wrote:
I have asked this in uk.comp.misc but I have not had a reply to my
problem that is within a tight budget i.e. nothing, if I can get away
with it.

We are dumping BT and I have gone on contract with an Orange mobile
dongle at £4 98? a month. I can get on line to the internet and
because of this, I'll be able to pick up my e mails.

Is there a low cast way to download the news groups I subscribe to?

Dave

http://groups.google.com

Searching - yes, very good.

Emergency use - OK.

Regular use: please, no - spare the rest of us the related grief of poor
quoting that seems to afflict it (when used in conjunction with the devil's
underpants that is OE). Seriously - compared to a real newsreader
(especially if the OP already has an established one) web interfaces don't
do justice to either email or USENET IMO.