Re: Screenshots etc.

Herbert,

>> And, the point is: Usenet *is* a text-only medium, by definition and
>> decree, even if lots of people have abused it over the years.
>
> Good joke. The usenet is nearly completely binary only in these days.
>
> https://www.newsdemon.com/usenet-newsgroup-feed-size

That list is useless, as it doesn't show what part of those numbers is from 
binaries and what from text-only messages.  Nor does it include the number 
of posters in either group.

And you're just looking at the ammount of data, making it sound as if a 
single persons 1MB upload trumps 200 people uploading 5KB text-only 
messages.

Also, a number of "usenet servers" act as defacto (payed access) 
file-servers, just using NNTP as its transfer mechanism.  That doesn't make 
them part of usenet, it just skews the numbers you posted.

Their peerage is limited to other defacto file-servers, with the actual 
usenet servers, like Ethernal September, mostly staying far away from them.

Yes, the ammount of resources used by binary posters is staggering, but they 
are still just a tiny fraction of the total number of usenet posters.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser