In a previous article, "Peter Duniho" said:
"Marco Leon" wrote in message
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Well, if a newsgroup provider can only turn on/off binaries as a group,
then that makes sense. My point was that images in rec groups would add
a negligible volume. However. if that means allowing all binaries on
all text-only groups then I agree, that's a bad idea.

An ISP committed to the idea could easily implement a per-newsgroup policy.

And hire about 8 more full time news admins to keep these per-newsgroup
policy flags up to date.

In fact, they would probably simply flag the text newsgroup where binaries
are allowed as a binary newsgroup (there's no restriction on text messages
within a binary newsgroup).

Or they could put all the newsgroups that allow binaries in one place -
i.e.: alt.binaries.*, so we can control expire times, spool space and
feeds with one configuration.

Oh wait, that's what we already do.



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