> On May 8, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
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> I think there are a number of people / hobbyists that run (text only) news servers (like myself) doing exactly that.

I don't understand what a "text only" news server is.  A "news" server schleps "news" around via NNTP.  The protocol is "text," as is SMTP for mail.  Is there a "binary" variation?