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Sure...but in this day and age I almost consider .rar a "read-only" format. There will be plenty of RAR archives that people are keeping around for historical reasons, but, why would you still be creating WinRAR archives when there are better options?

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> there are better options?

which are?..

If you need the interop then you can't beat ZIP

If you need a built-in recovery record (and find a working decompressing program 10-20 years later) then you can't beat RAR

If your corporate is insane and forbids 7z because it's FOSS/made by Russian then you can't beat RAR

Which are those 'better options'?

tar? XD

Your corporate should look up who makes WinRar.

Thanks, I know who and where from Eugene is.

On Usenet RAR/PAR is still the standard

Hopefully that slowly stops being the standard: https://github.com/animetosho/Nyuu/wiki/Stop-RAR-Uploads

Probably not, if the releases come from scene groups they follow the standard.

If you search up guides on how to upload to Usenet, you'll often find most of the recommend creating split RARs.

Uploaders who just transfer scene releases without bothering to extract will of course stick to RAR, but there's a lot of content these days that isn't from scene groups.

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