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   From: catwheezel@operamail.com   
      
   On 2010-12-29, Your Name  wrote:   
   > "Whiskers"  wrote in message   
   > news:slrnihml8v.cfi.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net...   
   >>   
   >> Google doesn't carry any binary newsgroups, whereas the majority of   
   >> news-servers do.   
   >   
   > I doubt that's true. Many newsservers do not deal with binaries newsgroups   
   > and some ISPs are dropping the binaries newsgroups (rather than dropping   
   > newsgroups completely) to get around the copyright and porn issues.   
      
   Some news-servers don't carry binary groups; the best ones for text-only   
   users certainly don't have any binaries.  But why is there a 'top 1000'   
   news-server list if there aren't at least several hundred news-servers   
   operating?  ISP-operated news-servers have never had a good reputation for   
   reliability, as a general rule (although there have been exceptions) - and   
   the latest spate of ISPs cutting back or ceasing their in-house   
   news-servers is just a local USA thing, not world-wide.  Out-sourcing to   
   one or another of the specialist NSPs is a trend at present.   
      
   >> Binaries account for the vast majority of newsgroup   
   >> posts.  I suspect that many news-servers are dominated by users who   
   >> contribute little or nothing to the text-only groups.   
   >   
   > Certainly true, just like it is for all web forums / messageboards.   
      
   There are web forums and message-boards overwhelmed by binary posts?  At   
   least HTTP is designed to shift binary files, which NNTP isn't.   
      
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