As of late October, the "alt.binaries" newsgroups are no longer being carried and supplied by the Dal News Server. The reason for this is that they were having major bandwidth and disk space problems, so their upstream providers were asked to stop feeding them "alt.binaries" groups. The "alt.binaries" feed represented 3/4 of the bandwidth and disk space utilization of the whole feed, much of it for copyrighted material and material that can be obtained much more efficiently using e.g. the Web. -------------------------------------------------------------------------