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 -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ ADSL Broadband available now