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It might have happened between when I'd originally registered and the present. It does make sense as SourceForge was providing free FTP uploads for binaries at the time and the automated tools to handle abuse were pretty poor. Lots of folks were looking to abuse it for bandwidth and malware distribution. The tools are better now, which is one reason Github finally added binary releases last year.


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