On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:58:57 GMT, James Silverton wrote:

> ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:36:28 +0200:
>
>>> On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:13:34 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, I haven't found a free news feed (yet) that carries
>>>> all the binaries; don't blame them - takes up a lot of
>>>> bandwidth and/or server space, which has to be paid for...
>>>
>>> teranews does (for a one-time fee of $3.95), but i can't
>>> speak to propagation reliability.
>>>
>>> <http://www.teranews.com/>
>>>
>>> your pal,
>>> blake
>
>> Yabut, it's still not completely 'free', i.e. one still has to
>> pay the 'one-time' fee.
>
> It's pretty trivial but I've never wanted to read binary newgroups
> anyway.

i first looked into it because verizon ended access to alt.* groups, which
included alt.food.asian.

your pal,
blake