1. "Free" meaning without ongoing costs; there's a $3.95 registration
fee.

2. Unless there's some kind of incompatibility with my newsreader. Or
perhaps it's some of the specific headers my system checks; I have
filters for headers other than the basic From and Subject. At any rate,
I have to turn off my filters in order to download message headers from
Tnews.

Thanks. Will also look into that one.