Miss_Kilobite wrote:

You may be the missing 1% or you may have your News Client set up
incorrectly!

I see you use Giganews (http://www.giganews.com/faq.html) which we use
at work. With respect, Binaries are not a problem on this service.

But really, it's not a question of whether binaries are a problem for
any particular news server. It's simply the most basic of netiquette to
read and respect a newsgroup's charter before posting anything other
than plain text messages.

http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.sci.astronomy.html