🚀 go-pugleaf

OK, I'm not sure if this is the correct space for this, but here goes:
I am at the point in configuring my personal unix box where I would like to
sever my umbilicus to an account on a foreign machine.  I would like to get
it configured so that I am able to receive net-mail and news via uucp.  I have
spoken to a gentleman who has run a site under DOS, and he mentioned things 
like getting a us domain for my machine, and finding a machine(his example was
pacbel.com) to do some sort of routing for his address(to avoid mangy bang
paths).  Now, I was wondering what proper phrasing for these requests would
be, and just what would I need to ask for?
Another, possibly unrelated:  Is it possible to get newsgroups from more than 
one site?  This gentleman has given me permission to leech from his news-site,
but it is only ~15 groups, many of which are of no interest to me.  But it's 
local, and free.  For those groups that he does not carry, is it possible to 
config such that I can glean them from another site?  It is unreasonable to
ask him to carry more groups, as he runs at 2400...
and, finally:  Where might I pull a comprehensive file on uucp from a FTP site?

thank you muchly.