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Also known as: discussion group
A group carrying readable discussion rather than encoded files, which covers the whole Big 8 and a large slice of alt.*. Volume is low enough that servers keep text groups far longer than binaries, commonly a decade or more, because the storage cost is negligible. Providers therefore quote text retention as a separate and much larger number than binary retention.
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