In message , David H.
Lipman writes:
From:

I dont have access to the binary newsgroups. I'm just wondering if any
of them are still active? (from those of you who may have access).

thanks

They are filled with crap and malware.

Many are installers for legitimate software but have been re-package
with malware.

Binary groupos that are worthwhile are those specific to art, crafts
and specific trades.
Example types are Photography and Woodworking.

And specific interests: I know someone who spends a lot of time
downloading videos of steam trains around the world, and certain types
of music from the '40s, for example, from binary 'groups.

There are 10's of thousands of News Groups and there are many good
active ones in the alt.binaries hierarchy.

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"One of my dearest memories is playing the leader of a gang of gay Hell's
Angels
thundering across the Golden Gate bridge on a motorbike in fog, wearing full
Nazi regalia with a young man in a purple dress on the pillion petrified we'd
crash into the bay." Christopher Lee (1997). ["It was in _The Serial_."]