"FrozenNorth" wrote in message
Google groups does not provide access to binary newsgroups.
Yahoo fortunately doesn't, there are too many web based portals into some

It makes me think that Google might want to setup binary access. With their
inroads to a truly major portion of the internet, they could corner the
market on users wanting binary access. Agreed, the market in that area is
shrinking, but there's always going to be a select group of people who will
want access to the binaries area.

Of course, my business knowledge in this area is woefully nonexistent. So,
I'm sure there's some financial reason that they haven't already done so.