I wonder just how big a non-binaries feed is these days. A tiny engineering company I worked for in '98-99 had its own Usenet server with a no-bin feed going into a SPARCstation 2 (think 386-486-class x86, equivalent) and it kept up just fine.
A couple years earlier I'd been one of the senior admins at Texas.Net (now DataFoundry) and helped build out what eventually turned into GigaNews, which used multiple dual-proc Sun E450s.. I think they're still one of the "biggest" Usenet providers these days.
A couple years earlier I'd been one of the senior admins at Texas.Net (now DataFoundry) and helped build out what eventually turned into GigaNews, which used multiple dual-proc Sun E450s.. I think they're still one of the "biggest" Usenet providers these days.