Search for news servers carrying a particular newsgroup. This
is probably what you're looking for.
By typing in either a
complete newsgroup name
("alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.gothic-industrial")
or a component of a newsgroup name
("bill-gates"),
you will be able to locate public news servers carrying the newsgroup in
question.
Look up news servers in the database by news server name.
I decided to do this so you can find out if there are any open NNTP proxies
at, say,
home.com or
Netcom.
When making a query, do not use wildcards like "*" or "%"; it
won't work. The search engine will automatically do a wildcard
search if it doesn't find any exact matches. So searching for 'mp3'
will automatically expand into all the group names that contain 'mp3'.
Get it? Good.