I guess there will be a few situations when you are out of luck. However, take things in perspective. Sometimes news are transported by mail, either over a gateway, or as mail to a moderator. Initially that will be a limited set.
National hierarchies is another matter.
I'm brave enough to say that's a non-issue. Moderated groups might be another matter. However, I don't think we will go around and create new groups with in them the first day that our Draft becomes Standard. If nothing else, we need a wide deployment of UTF-8 first. And since we only have one moderated group this far, I don't think we will start with a moderated one.