I use Teranews & Astraweb "free" news services for when NTL is borked.
Teranews requires a one off setup fee of about $5 by credit card, but allows posting.
Astraweb is completely free, but no posting.
Both are capped at 50MB per 24 hours (which includes headers), but carry way more groups than NTL & completion/retention is better too.
There is also Bubbanews, which I havn't tried, this shares the same server as Teranews with the same deal as Astraweb - free but no posting & 50MB per 24hrs.
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