On 28/08/2018 15:27, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 02:52:36PM +0100, Mark Rousell wrote: >> Except for perhaps hacked servers in some cases, FTP never did have >> much of a >> part to play in binaries distribution from what I could see. > > I guess you didn't use debian? Or are we only talking about the > illegal content that I thought wasn't the reason usenet is important. > It's so hard to keep track of what the point was supposed to be.
Oops, I meant to reply to this part. Lots of people download files from FTP servers but that's a wholly different culture and use case than Usenet provided for in practice. And who said that binaries (whether legal or illegal) was not a big part of Usenet at its height? I certainly said no such thing and nor did you, as far as I could see. -- Mark Rousell
