Here is a free Usenet service [WAS:Re: usenet about to die?]

[Kevin Brown]

>> A good free Usenet service (assuming you want to download
>> information not binaries) is offered by SunSITE.dk
>> (http://news.sunsite.dk).

> Appreciated.
> 
> Their policies sound exceedingly stringent though.  "We filter HTML
> posts"?! Given that many people (esp. on nontechnical groups) don't
> even know they're HTML posting, I bet that strips 40 percent of some
> groups.

Filtering doesn't mean getting rid of.  They could simply be removing 
the tags and leaving the text behind.