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by throwaway847t 1057 days ago
Each instance could also choose which groups to distribute. Many ISPs didn't carry all groups (such as binary groups and groups in other languages) to save money, or due to the content itself (porn, warez, MP3). Sometimes they would have delays because some groups were only synced a few times a day.

This created a market for NNTP servers that provided full content for a monthly fee and sometimes even with a spam filter