Edit : To the other usenet newbies: you'll need to familiarize yourselves with news servers, browsers, and the like.
You might try www.news.astraweb.com as your news server, a pay service with good server retention (e.g., the length of time posts are retained) or your internet provider (mine is Comcast, but their retention seems to be really bad). For a browser, I'm using "GrabIt!" which seems to be working pretty well. It will take some time coming up to speed on the subject, but it's cool when it works!
A good resource for terminology: TechSono
Rebel Scum helped me out in coming up to speed on the newsgroup thing here.
Happy gathering!