astraweb has an 11 dollars a month unlimited ssl with 20 connections. I just left giganews for them. 160 day retention and ive had no problems
http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html
easynews is very easy as its web based http search list and downloads. Create a zip and download using reget or similar only problem is $10 for 20 gig compared to $11 nntp unlimited there is not much competition