There was a post in alt.free.newsservers this nmorning from the folks at news.individual.net. Seems they can no longer aford to keep it going for free. It was a university project which was completed in 2002 and they've been keeping it going on the cuff ever since while looking for new funding.
So they are instituting a fee of 10 Euros a year. Not a lot :-).
So for those of us using it, we have till the end of March to pay up or find another server. Go to their website for details.