Subj : Picture
To   : Arelor
From : Jas Hud
Date : Tue Feb 08 2022 11:49:41

  To: Arelor
  Re: Picture
  By: Arelor to Jas Hud on Mon Feb 07 2022 07:22 pm

 > massive ammounts of binary data over text-only channels (such as the
 > Usenet).
 >
 > I wonder if the Usenet warez people is using the base64 variant or
 > traditional uuencode, though. Still, not a completely abbandoned practice.
 >

yeah and most of them need a .nzb file to grab files.
it's all handled by programs now.  i'm not even sure if there's been changes to how it's encoded.  i havent downloaded anything off usenet for years.  there were too many takedowns.  i just use torrents now.
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