I forgot to add, when I transitioned into usenet, the most confusing part was that you need to find 2 separate services. From what I understand 1st is access to a usenet to connect to, and 2nd is a service that knows how to crawl and search the 1st to find what you’re looking for.

I could be wrong about that, but that’s how understand it, and have yet to have issues with my setup.