When they realized it was only people using the alt.binaries groups still using Usenet. Most providers have done so these days. Get a giganews account. More newsgroups available than anyone around (most ISP's aggregated their Usenet feeds from giganews in the first place).
If you're looking for actual newsgroups (not binaries), I think Google still has some available, as do a few other sites.
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