Yes, since you use aol, you will need to pay for a news server. All other
ISP's include a server as part of their service.

Try GigaNews for an excellent news server, or leave aol and get a better
ISP.


"Ed" wrote in message
oups.com...
Hi, sorry to be a pita, pain in the ass but i have selected to use
the Thunderbird-Mozilla news reader. Its asking me for the news group
server which i thought was rec.boats but not liking that server. Does
anyone have any idea what the correct server id is ?

Thanks
Ed