@Edent @davidgerard 3. Turning NNTP into the world's largest distributed repository of pirated TV and movies may, in retrospect, have had some downsides. To this day I'm genuinely shocked that more providers didn't drop and block the alt.binaries hierarchy way earlier than they eventually did. Not that I'm morally opposed to media piracy in a lot of cases, but as early as 1998 every Usenet admin was spending the majority of their time trying to manage things that were not conversations.