Just for your information, newsgroups are knd of like email servers, you need a program that can access the nntp protocol ( as compared to http ). Google has a gateway thru the web, but you can get a full fledged newsgroup program, and set it up. I use Agent, which runs on linux under Wine, as well on it's native Windows. Linux also has the Pan newsreader.

You can even use Perl scripts.....nntp