Posted and emailed to Reno Raines.
Please don't post binary files to non-binary newsgroups. News administrators make decisions about which groups to carry at their sites, and may decide not to carry binary newsgroups because of space considerations, copyright concerns,or other reasons. If binary files start being posted in nonbinary newsgroups, then those newsgroups also might start being dropped from sites.
Here is an explanation from Matt Messina: Here's an excerpt from the alt.tv.mad-about-you FAQ. The same principle applies to alt.tv.friends. [and alt.tv.seinfeld!]
Posting binaries to the group is not forbidden, but the posting of large binaries is often inconvenient. It is easier to post locations of FTP or WWW sites and let interested people retrieve the files, or to post them to one of the alt.binaries.pictures groups (following their guidelines for posting) and let this newsgroup know. Besides, some news sites' administrators are known to object to binary posts in non-binary newsgroups such as ours, and could decide to stop carrying alt.tv.mad-about-you at your site... and who'd want THAT to happen?
... or at someone else's site, and then you couldn't discuss _Friends_ (or argue which actor is best looking) with people at that site.