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In article <ARMM-Report-934.a@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us> red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (Richard E. Depew) writes:
>Subject: Re: bincancel:9 large binaries:AR934:@@NCM
>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 20:41:33 GMT
>From: red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (Richard E. Depew)
>Keywords: ARMM - Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation

>Large binary posts do not belong in unmoderated discussion groups.

>Please read this entire message, the Bincancel FAQ, and the complete
>report (see below) before following up to or responding to this article.

>As a service to, and with the cooperation of, other news administrators,
>I run a program that searches for, and issues advisory cancels for,
>large binaries in the akr, biz, comp, humanities, misc, news, nz, rec,
>sci, soc, and talk hierarchies.

>I have issued 9 cancels for large binary files (average size 332,738
>characters - total size 2,994,645 characters) posted to 8 different
>unmoderated discussion groups in the biz, news, and rec hierarchies
>(with cross-posts into alt, fj, relcom, tx, and ukr groups) as
>follows:
>   2 biz.marketplace.international
>        alt.business.import-export
>        alt.business.import-export.food
>        alt.food.professionals
>        alt.sex.pictures
>        relcom.commerce.food
>        ukr.commerce.food
>        alt.sex.trans
>        fj.rec.food
>   1 rec.music.celtic
>   1 rec.music.beatles
>   1 rec.motorcycles
>        tx.motorcycles
>   1 rec.collecting.phonecards
>   1 rec.collecting
>   1 rec.autos.sport.rally
>   1 news.newusers.questions

>The unnumbered newsgroups in the list are not separate posts, but
>are cross-postings of the articles represented by the preceeding
>numbered items.  Cross-posting may lead to cancels in non-targeted
>groups as a consequence of the way cross-posts 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.
>Follow-ups are directed to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet.

>If you want to see exactly which file was deleted from a particular
>group, read the full report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins.  The
>full report can also be found in news.lists.filters and alt.retromod.
>Look for AR934 in the subject, or, if your reader supports it,
>use <URL:news:ARMM-Report-934@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>.

>The criteria used to search for this batch of large binaries were:
>   NEWSGROUPS: Unmoderated groups in the akr, biz, comp, humanities, 
>               misc, news, rec, nz, sci, soc, and talk hierarchies
>               (except for comp.binaries.apple2, comp.bugs.2bsd, and
>               rec.games.bolo)
>   BINARY: base64, binhex, uuencode, and xbtoa encoded files, etc.
>   SIZE: > 100,000 characters [(size * (# of parts - .5)), if multi-part]

>If you must post a binary to Usenet, please post it *only* to an
>appropriate binaries newsgroup such as one in the alt.binaries
>sub-hierarchy, 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.

>For more information about binary cancels, see the bincancel FAQ,
><URL:http://www.southcom.com.au/~geniac/binfaq.txt>. 

>Please direct public feedback to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet and private
>feedback to red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us.  In the interests of preventing
>cross-posted flame wars, please honor the followup-to header and do
>*not* cross-post your reply to multiple groups.  Thank you for your
>cooperation.

>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, _The Pickwick Papers_

This damned great thing regularly spammed to all these groups smacks to me of 
net-abuse. Maybe if everyone mailed him a binary every time they saw it.......