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Also known as: binary, binaries
A Usenet article carrying encoded file data rather than readable text. Since NNTP moves only text, the file is encoded, usually with yEnc, then split across many articles posted to a binary newsgroup. A single feature-length video release can occupy tens of thousands of such articles, which a newsreader collects, decodes, and joins back into the original file.
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