On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, the hatter wrote:

> > > It's certainly not what I'd call anywhere close to being "standard" or
> > > "universal".
> >
> > I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a
> > standard way of distributing warez and moviez.
> 
> Certainly a majority of warez that show up on our network are rars (and
> they tend to be single large files, so they're not directly taken from
> multipart usenet posts)

They might have been. The .rar file is what you get after recombining the 
multipart messages.

Jason Clifford
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