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Back in 1998 my ISP dropped NNTP because it was pretty expensive to run, it required large, fast SCSI disks and ate quite a bit of bandwidth, constantly. At the same time rather few customers used it, so it was an easy decision for them to just decommission that server.

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I recall my ISP doing the same eventually around the same time. At first, they stopped carrying binary groups and, later, all of Usenet.

That must have been before the high-bandwidth binary side decoupled from the forum side.

Yes but no: my ISP never carried alt.binaries

Current text volume is on the order of a few gigabytes per day, including spam.

Way back then my ISP had a T1 shared among hundreds of customers. :-D

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