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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
hierarchies.

I have issued 19 cancels for large binary files (average size 249,871
characters - total size 4,747,542 characters) posted to 11 different
unmoderated discussion groups in the rec, news, misc, comp, and sci
hierarchies (with cross-posts into alt and fidospk groups) as
follows:
   7 rec.sport.waterski
   3 comp.lang.javascript
   1 rec.nude
   1 rec.games.video.nintendo
   1 rec.games.frp.dnd
   1 rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
   1 news.newusers.questions
   1 misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.cards.video
   1 sci.skeptic
	fidospk.politics
	alt.war
	alt.conspiracy
	alt.business.misc
	alt.society.sovereign
   1 comp.sys.amiga.misc
   1 comp.os.ms-windows.video

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.
Follow-ups are directed to news.admin.net-abuse.misc.

If you want to see exactly which file was deleted from a particular
group, read the full report in news.admin.net-abuse.announce.  Look
for AR279 in the subject.  The full report can also be found in
alt.nocem.misc and alt.retromod.

The criteria used to search for this batch of large binaries were:
   NEWSGROUPS: Unmoderated akr, biz, comp, misc, news, rec, or sci
	       (except for comp.binaries.apple2 and rec.games.bolo)
   BINARY: (base64, binhex, uuencode, and xbtoa encoded files, etc.)
   SIZE: > 100,000 characters (size * number of parts, if multi-part)

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.  This permits news administrators
and users to decide for themselves whether to receive 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