On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Daniel Roesen wrote:
If folks would end abusing NNTP for file distribution via flooding, the matter would quickly be resolved. Am i naive?
The technical term might be "trolling" . Binaries have made up the vast majority of Usenet bandwidth since at least the early 90s so hoping it will go away will not happen. One of the attractions to Usenet is that since the majority of messages (by number) are in fact discussions it is hard to claim it is an illegal file sharing network which is why (IANAL) the *AA hasn't shut it down yet and Usenet providers operate openly. Talking of "resolving" and "abusing" wrt binary newsfeeds grew old around 10 years ago. These days plenty of people run text-only feeds and leave the full-binary feeds to the top hundred or so sites that can afford them. -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.