For those of you out there into usenet, I just want to mention that this free usenet server I found works really well with Outlook or the Opera 7 browser which I connected it to (Im to lazy to figure out how to use Xnews). Heres the link again to register:

http://news.cis.dfn.de/en/register.html

And when they email you back your password, this is the link you get for instructions on how to connect:

http://news.cis.dfn.de/