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...you have to buy a decent usenet client.

You do?

You mean to tell me that someone is giving away a NNTP client that runs on Windows?

Oh man, GE is not gonna like this. It takes money out of the US IT economy and exposes all kinds of trade secrets to our enemies. Who knows what the Chicoms can do with a free usenet client? They can use it to suck all of our technical newsgroups dry and not pay a cent for the information! Horrors!

Actually, I've tried Xnews and I really like it. I have it on the Windows side of my "travelling" 600E that I use on the road. After browsing through the NNTP servers on my sister's Verizon DSL account, I can now say that my RoadRunner servers truly suck.

Well, I dunno about wrecking the NNTP client industry, mostly because I don't think there is an NNTP client industry. I've been browsing Usenet for long, long time now, on a variety of operating systems, and I don't recall ever having to buy a client for any of them ;)

After browsing through the NNTP servers on my sister's Verizon DSL account, I can now say that my RoadRunner servers truly suck.

Surprisingly, news is one thing Vz does pretty well. I switched from Verizon DSL to Earthlink/Covad about a year ago, mostly because Verizon refused to increase my line speed to the level that I was being offered elsewhere. EL's servers aren't truly horrendous, but it's definitely a step down from Vz. But, I get more speed, so it's more or less worth it...