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From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 20:54:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code?
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On Tue, 8 May 2018, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

>
>> On May 8, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
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>> I think there are a number of people / hobbyists that run (text only) news servers (like myself) doing exactly that.
>
> I don't understand what a "text only" news server is.  A "news" server schleps "news" around via NNTP.  The protocol is "text," as is SMTP for mail.  Is there a "binary" variation?

There's a bunch of groups, like alt.binaries.*, that carry large volumes 
of pirated material (software, videos, DVDISOs, etc.).  A text-only server 
excludes those groups.

-uso.