🚀 go-pugleaf

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
hierarchies.

I have issued 9 cancels for large binary files (average size 226,850
characters - total size 2,041,656 characters) posted to 10 different
unmoderated discussion groups in the news, misc, comp, biz, and rec
hierarchies (with cross-posts into tor groups) as follows:
   2 misc.test
   1 rec.music.makers.synth
   1 rec.games.computer.ultima-dragons
   1 news.newusers.questions
   1 misc.industry.electronics.marketplace
   1 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech
   1 biz.marketplace.computers.pc-clone
   1 biz.marketplace
	biz.marketplace.services.discussion
	biz.marketplace.services.noncomputer
	tor.forsale

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

This pointer is being posted to each affected group listed above,
with the exception of test groups.  Follow-ups are directed to
news.admin.net-abuse.misc.

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 AR255 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 *only* to an
appropriate binaries newsgroup such as alt.binaries.misc, and do *not*
crosspost it to non-binaries groups.  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