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What do you mean? What does isp have to do with Usenet?
@iHUNTcriminals
@owiseedoubleyou @deleted
Usenet access used to be included by ISPs. It’s been a long time since that was standard. I’m not sure which Usenet providers are worthwhile now.
yeah. but i think most of them excluded binaries, even back then.
@rufus
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No, binaries were included. That was the main way binaries were exchanged for a time.
I'm pretty sure around where i live you did not get the alt.binaries groups except if you went to a proper usenet provider and payed. the ISPs didn't want to pay for all of the storage. but this was a long time ago and i wasn't yet interested in stuff like that. maybe i misremember.
My ISP has their own usenet servers. I get access to all the good shit via it, for free.