Easynews has secure anonymous access through SSL and they are cheap too, $10/10Gigs, Giganews is the only other server that has SSL that I know of, but they are really expensive.
Here is really cool guide that was listed on slyck.com that talks about the the differences between BT and the usenet and tells you from start to finish how to use the newsgroups;
http://www.mantup.com
Hope this helps
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