How do I access Usenet now?

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Q Thank you for an entertaining and informative magazine. My provider, Virgin, emailed to say that its Usenet service has been withdrawn. Since this was my main reason for joining Virgin many years ago, it makes me think why it has made this decision. What are the alternatives? A Virgin has presumably made a commercial decision that it wasn't worth maintaining its Usenet servers. The system is now dated, and generally used for piracy - though thousands of legitimate, text-based chat groups do still exist, of course.