Great product. Sets up fast. Has extensive help wiki. These guys promote Giganews for a news server. Giganews is the biggest and most reliable, but I went with Astraweb since they have what they call block accounts. That's a certain amount of downloaded data rather than an monthly subscription and that let's you ease into Usenet without monthly fees. Do pay the $35 for Newsbin, You'll never need another newsreader. Its' upgraded twice or more a year (FOR FREE). I've gone through several upgrades without a hitch. Never seen a feature it didn't have. I tested two other readers and read a bunch of stuff. In tests, Newsbin was MUCH faster to download content and also reassembled one test that the other two wouldn't.