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Also known as: binaries group, binary group
A group carrying encoded files rather than conversation, nearly always under alt.binaries.*. Articles hold yEnc-encoded segments that a newsreader reassembles into the original file. Because one release can span thousands of articles, these groups produce the overwhelming majority of Usenet's daily volume, measured in tens of terabytes, and they are what the retention and completion figures on a provider's specification sheet actually describe.
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