Although the Usenet's primary purpose and design is to carry on discussions and conversations on virtually any topic imaginable, the fun does not end there. The Usenet and the very nature of its server peering and client server relationships makes it an ideal place to share user-generated binaries and files. Binary files are stored in the form of sets of encoded text messages or articles on the newsgroup servers.
Binary files are rather large, so before one can be uploaded or stored on the Usenet, it must first be broken up into smaller parts and converted from binary to text message format. This conversion process is done through yEnc and the binaries are stored as multipart text messages, the native storage format of the Usenet newsgroup file system. Luckily, downloading and sharing files has never been easier with today's newsreaders.
Today, newsreaders are capable of downloading and decoding multipart binaries and reassembling them back into the original single binary file. Binary files can be any type of user-generated digital content.