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Thanks for the pointer! I took the opportunity to learn a bit about more recent NNTP by reading the standard: RFC 3977. It looks like nntp v2 circa 2006 added MIME encoding, so I would guess that may be how a service provider would differentiate.
I haven't used Usenet since the turn of the century. Back then it was all text (including every article under alt.binaries), and even pirated media needed to be split into a multi-part format (often rar) then each part uuencoded so it could be included in an article.
I mean, you made me look at it again myself, as the multi-part rar files on Usenet are still very much a thing. The allowable "article" sizes for binary content are larger than for text articles, but still too small for video or high-quality audio.