You can get a free account here:

http://www.yottanews.com/freeaccount.php

They carry both text and binary groups.

I have used it in the past and seems to be pretty complete. I think there is a
50MB daily limit.

Randy
http://picasaweb.google.com/crmartin1

http://kittenwar.com/kittens/74045/

I haven't looked there for ages until I saw your post. I just looked and
nothing. I normally get abpa through my ISP, who in turn use Giganews. I had
used syr.edu as a backup in case I had problems or if I was connecting via a
different ISP which isn't very often.