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 Post subject: Weaklink banning the binaries!?
PostPosted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:52 am 
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Just saw this in hfx.general

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Newsgroup Service Message

Effective April 14, 2008 EastLink is discontinuing its binary newsgroup
service (all non-text files). EastLink will continue to offer its text
based newsgroup service.



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Why is EastLink discontinuing the binary service?

EastLink's Newsgroup Service provider has chosen to discontinue the binary
service based on declining usage and changing technology; therefore EastLink
will no longer offer the service.


I would say this has more to do with blocking copyrighted material than a lack of use.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:38 pm 

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I'm not positive, but don't newsgroups require the ISP to provide server space for them?

With the advent of P2P apps there aren't a lot of folks still using newsgroups so I suspect the server space (and bandwidth to populate the server) for what is probably a select few users is the main driving issue.

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Ze binaries are gonez :cry:

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