[ih] distributed network control: Usenet

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/4/21 5:46 PM, Dan Lynch via Internet-history wrote:
> Was/is alt.binaries mostly porn encoded or executable files being shared or stolen?

Yes. My sense, back when I ran news.cwru.edu, was that the former consumed
more bandwidth and disk storage, but it was both.


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