Got a need to post text reqs to ebooks group(s) which are under DRM
attack big time. Any thesaurus' which list which binary groups
aren't reachable for each of the three M2N servers, or the shorter
list of which groups *are* permissible? I thought mixmin had
around 40K or so groups reachable but that was long ago...just
getting used to QSL again, too old to grapple with Omnimix, too
many levers & pedals.

I know nothing about neodome but seem to recall Dizum had some sort
of blanket ban on binaries...

On 24 Feb 2024, Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> posted some
news:e9d183645970263c46c35ffa34cca5f3@dizum.com:

> Got a need to post text reqs to ebooks group(s) which are under DRM
> attack big time. Any thesaurus' which list which binary groups
> aren't reachable for each of the three M2N servers, or the shorter
> list of which groups *are* permissible? I thought mixmin had
> around 40K or so groups reachable but that was long ago...just
> getting used to QSL again, too old to grapple with Omnimix, too
> many levers & pedals.
>
> I know nothing about neodome but seem to recall Dizum had some sort
> of blanket ban on binaries...

You need a server that permits posting to binary groups. All the servers
in the mixmaster family permit text only and will drop any posts to
binary groups.

> Got a need to post text reqs to ebooks group(s) which are under DRM
> attack big time. Any thesaurus' which list which binary groups
> aren't reachable for each of the three M2N servers, or the shorter
> list of which groups *are* permissible? I thought mixmin had
> around 40K or so groups reachable but that was long ago...just
> getting used to QSL again, too old to grapple with Omnimix, too
> many levers & pedals.
>
> I know nothing about neodome but seem to recall Dizum had some sort
> of blanket ban on binaries...

You need a server that permits posting to binary groups. All the
servers
in the mixmaster family permit text only and will drop any posts to
binary groups.

Thanks for that. However, **I only want to post text**. I do not
want to post binaries. The text I want to post will be posted to
binaries heirarchy. I know from long time ago when I used QS and
QSL that the servers dropped binary posts and permitted text posts
to some binaries.

What I asked for was a list of groups which are permitted by the
gateways. Surely they can't all be text groups only? I only want
the ebook binary groups.

So with that clarification, any ideas?

On 2/24/24 08:29, Nomen Nescio wrote:

> Thanks for that. However, **I only want to post text**. I do not
> want to post binaries.

Which is it? Do you want to post text? Or do you want to post ebooks?
Because ebooks (.EPUB and .PDF) *are* binary files.

Regardless, Mixmaster is just the wrong tool for what you are contemplating.

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> You need a server that permits posting to binary groups. All the servers
> in the mixmaster family permit text only and will drop any posts to binary
> groups.

Is it possible to encrypt a binary as an ASC file (text) and
then post it?

On 2/24/24 08:29, Nomen Nescio wrote:

>> Thanks for that. However, **I only want to post text**. I do not
>> want to post binaries.

>Which is it? Do you want to post text? Or do you want to post ebooks?
>Because ebooks (.EPUB and .PDF) *are* binary files.

>Regardless, Mixmaster is just the wrong tool for what you are contemplating.

Pardon? I wrote pretty clearly that I just want to post texts to
binaries groups. No ambiguity there. I know the limitations using
remailers to post binaries, I want to DL ebooks, not post them.
That generally starts with a request, which is what I want to post,
The requests will be text only.

In any case, I found Steve Crooks' list of active groups for his
M2N gateway and lo & behold, there are many, many binaries. So,
problem (seemingly) solved. I also recall from many years ago that
there were severe limitations on dizum's gateway list of groups but
I can't find that list anymore. Neodome is new to me so I don't
know where, if anywhere, that admin has listed his/her active
groups list. So, if you know, which I assume you do, please advise
on groups list for both Dizum & Neodome. But Mixmin will do in the
meantime.

Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
> Got a need to post text reqs to ebooks group(s) which are under DRM
> attack big time. Any thesaurus' which list which binary groups
> aren't reachable for each of the three M2N servers, or the shorter
> list of which groups *are* permissible? I thought mixmin had
> around 40K or so groups reachable but that was long ago...just
> getting used to QSL again, too old to grapple with Omnimix, too
> many levers & pedals.
>
> I know nothing about neodome but seem to recall Dizum had some sort
> of blanket ban on binaries...
>

There is a size limitation on postings through dizum, but binaries -should- not be blocked en masse. (need to check0.