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Binary posts do not belong in unmoderated discussion groups.

I run a program that searchs for, and issues advisory cancels for,
large binaries in the akr, biz, comp, misc, news, rec, and sci
hierachies.

I have issued 31 cancels for large binary files (average size 195,741
characters - total size 6,067,999 characters) posted to 10 different
unmoderated discussion groups in the comp, misc and rec hierarchies
as follows:
  12 rec.games.programmer
   5 misc.fitness.weights
   5 comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images
   2 rec.skydiving
   2 rec.autos.4x4
   1 rec.pets.cats
   1 rec.games.bolo
   1 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
   1 comp.sys.amiga.games
   1 comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc

This pointer is being posted to each affected group listed above.
Follow-ups are directed to news.admin.net-abuse.misc.

The cancels in non-targeted groups are an unavoidable consequence of
the way cancels work.  A cross-posted article is only one article.
When it is canceled from one group it is canceled from all groups.

If you want to see exactly which file was deleted from a particular
group, or the criteria that I used to select it, read the full report
in news.admin.net-abuse.announce.  Look for AR220 in the Subject.
The full report can also be found in alt.nocem.misc and alt.retromod.

If you must post a binary to Usenet, please post it to an appropriate
binaries newsgroup such as alt.binaries.misc.  Then, if you like, post
something in the appropriate discussion group telling people where to
find the binary in the binaries group (a pointer to the binary).  This
will permit news administrators and users to decide for themselves
whether to receive the binary files.

Please direct public feedback to news.admin.net-abuse.misc and private
feedback to red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us.  Thanks.

Best wishes,
Dick
-- 
Richard E. Depew, Munroe Falls, OH    red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (home)
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they
  always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off'' 
  -- Charles Dickens