Ed Murphy wrote:
DoN. Nichols wrote:

And RH -- it looks as though RoadRunner (and Verizon) are
dropping support for newsgroups. (Though Verizon is supposed to be
continuing support for the big-8 groups, which include the "rec.' ones.
If you find yourself without a newsfeed, you can try using the
commercial news company which I use -- newsguy.com. They are apparently
offering one month's free news to customers of Verizon and RoadRunner.

Wikipedia's article on Usenet mentions some free feeds, one of which is
working well for me. (Google turns up a whole mess of supposedly free
ones, but they're either not free any more, or only allow reading, or
add spam to your posts, or offer no comprehensible means of signing up
for an account. Google Groups, as always, has its own pile of issues.)

I am on Time-Warner & signed up for Motzarella last night, but this
morning I compared the number of new messages on the TW server &
Motzarella's & I saw TW showed 160 new messages on RCM & Motzarella only
showed 80 new messages. So I am trying nntp.aioe.org now.

MikeB