Well, I was trying to set up being able to read newsgroups through my internet provider and discovered that they recently stopped providing that service. Thankfully I discovered that this had been a topic here. On the recommendation from several I have gone with individual.net for my news reader. I have to say it was very easy to set up and while I don't like to have to pay for something that I didn't have to previously it was very inexpensive.
Thank you to all who particapated in the discussion, it was very informative. I was greatful as I really don't like reading from google.
Kenda