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   From: your.name@isp.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Whiskers  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It's not a "USA thing". Here in New Zealand a couple of ISPs have dropped   
   their newservers completely and the one I use (now owned by Vodafone New   
   Zealand) dropped "all" binaries newsgroups a few years ago ... mostly   
   because they couldn't actually fix their newsserver, so they dropped the   
   binaries newsgroups under the guise of copyright and porn issues to lower   
   the data load (of course the newsserver still fell over, it just took   
   longer, and not all the binaries newsgroups were actually removed,   
   including still leaving some of the porn ones).   
      
      
      
      
   > >> 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.   
      
   No. The statement was that "many newsservers are dominated by users who   
   contribute little or nothing" ... many web forums and messageboards are   
   also read by people who contribute nothing.   
      
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