Gary J. MacDonald wrote:
... Rogers is dropping USENET tomorrow, apparently because it
takes up too much bandwidth (but is not used by a large number of people?).

The big media companies don't like Usenet because people spend time
listening to each other, rather than to corporate media BS.

Are you in Canada? My ISP is great, but I'm not sure they do Canada.
Hope you find a better ISP soon. I agree it's better to read news
using a feed than using the Google interface.