Hey, it wasn't a problem for five years for my ISP to privide them.

Of course not. But they weren't offering them for free to the general public. They were offering them to paid subscribers.

I agree that it sucks when ISPs take away features from their users, I've had it happen to me. So I do sympathize. I just wanted to drive home the concept that one gets what one pays for, and you can't expect newsgroups to be freely available in an easy fashion.