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I have issued 7 cancels for large binary files (average size 241,999
characters - total size 1,693,997 characters) posted to 9 different
unmoderated discussion groups in the comp, misc, news, and rec
hierarchies (with two cross-posted into alt groups) as follows:
   2 rec.music.hip-hop
   2 alt.rap
   2 alt.binaries.rap
   2 alt.binaries.multimedia.rap
   1 rec.autos.antique
   1 news.newusers.questions
   1 misc.transport.trucking
   1 comp.sys.amiga.applications
   1 comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95

This report is being cross-posted to each affected newsgroup.

The criteria used to search for this batch of large binaries were:
   SIZE: > 120,000 characters
   NEWSGROUPS: Unmoderated akr, biz, comp, misc, news, rec, or sci
   BINARY: (.zip, .jpg, .avi, .exe, .sit, .bmp, .bin, .wav, .gif,
	    .dwg, .fon, uuencoded and base64 encoded files, etc.)

The contents of the files are not relevant to these criteria for
classifying an article as a "large binary".  This is something that
can be done by a simple program. 

The cancels follow the "<cancel.", "cyberspam!", "bincancel!",
and "X-Canceled-By: " conventions.  News administrators may block
these cancel messages specifically by aliasing out "bincancel" or
generally by aliasing out "cyberspam".

In my opinion, the best way to distribute binary files is via ftp or
the web.  With the ready availablity of ftpmail servers, even uucp
sites can retrieve binaries from ftp sites.

However, if you really 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.

There has been a long-standing consensus among news administrators that
binaries belong in binaries newsgroups, and not elsewhere.  There also
seems to be an emerging consensus supporting the cancellation of large
binaries in discussion groups as long as appropriate protocols are
followed.  I am testing that consensus and developing a protocol.

Please direct public feedback to news.admin.net-abuse.misc and private
feedback to myself at red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us.  If there is an
unmoderated binaries group in the hierarchies that I scan, I don't know
about it yet.  Feel free to enlighten me.

The sizes and headers of the canceled binaries follow:
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Size: 124612 characters
|Path: ...!in1.uu.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.ichange.com!newsmaster
|From: ledge@power.com (tha iLL oNE)
|Newsgroups: alt.rap,rec.music.hip-hop,alt.binaries.rap,alt.binaries.multimedia.rap
|Subject: Compton's Most Wanted sample - 8hype.wav (1/7)
|Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 05:58:50 GMT
|Organization: POWER FORCE ORGANISATION
|Lines: 2001
|Distribution: world
|Message-ID: <4efm5f$6gv@ias2.ichange.com>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.78.208.45
|X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82
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Size: 124729 characters
|Path: ...!in1.uu.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.ichange.com!newsmaster
|From: ledge@power.com (tha iLL oNE)
|Newsgroups: alt.rap,rec.music.hip-hop,alt.binaries.rap,alt.binaries.multimedia.rap
|Subject: Compton's Most Wanted sample - 8hype.wav (2/7)
|Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 05:58:51 GMT
|Organization: POWER FORCE ORGANISATION
|Lines: 2000
|Distribution: world
|Message-ID: <4efmdu$6gv@ias2.ichange.com>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.78.208.45
|X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82
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Size: 233042 characters
|Path: ...!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!pop.gnn.com!pierider
|From: pierider@gnn.com (Jason Holmes)
|Newsgroups: misc.transport.trucking
|Subject: 95 kw millis.jpg - millis.jpg (1/1)
|Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 15:46:12
|Organization: Megaweb
|Lines: 3752
|Distribution: world
|Message-ID: <4ebiet$lpr@news-e1a.megaweb.com>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: @www-38-132.gnn.com
|Mime-Version: 1.0
|Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
|X-GNN-NewsServer-Posting-Date: 26 Jan 1996 21:52:29 GMT
|X-Mailer: GNNmessenger 1.2
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Size: 121308 characters
|Path: ...!news.cais.net!xara.net!SoNet!usenet
|From: Andy Lambert <alambert@aladdin.co.uk>
|Newsgroups: rec.autos.antique
|Subject: Four old Ladys in the sun
|Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:03:18 +0000
|Organization: SoNet - The first Internet provider on the south coast
|Lines: 1654
|Message-ID: <310BE496.376E@aladdin.co.uk>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.119.120.4
|Mime-Version: 1.0
|Content-Type: image/jpeg
|Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
|X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (Win95; I)
|Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Fleet.jpg"
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Size: 163616 characters
|Path: ...!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!kenzie.demon.co.uk
|From: robert@kenzie.demon.co.uk (robert mckenzie)
|Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
|Subject: Re: IBrowse, but MUI too big
|Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:09:16 GMT
|Lines: 2601
|Message-ID: <163012.6602T65T2721@kenzie.demon.co.uk>
|References: <4dede8$hsv@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4dgdqg$t69@ccub.wlv.ac.uk>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: kenzie.demon.co.uk
|X-NNTP-Posting-Host: kenzie.demon.co.uk
|X-Newsreader: THOR 2.2 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
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Size: 306670 characters
|Path: ...!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews
|From: Jeff Powell <jpowell1@ix.netcom.com>
|Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
|Subject: test2
|Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:17:24 -0800
|Organization: Netcom
|Lines: 4193
|Message-ID: <310BF5F4.5831@ix.netcom.com>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-sj50-13.ix.netcom.com
|Mime-Version: 1.0
|Content-Type: image/gif
|Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
|X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Jan 28  2:18:54 PM PST 1996
|X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I)
|Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Voyshp01.gif"
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Size: 620020 characters
|Path: ...!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!news-admin
|From: tomkat@enterway.net (tomkat)
|Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95
|Subject: WordPer win95 update for v6.1 fixes lots of prob's - wp95pat.zip (1/1)
|Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 17:17:57 GMT
|Organization: InternetMCI
|Lines: 9992
|Message-ID: <31090c58.37448056@news.internetmci.com>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.217.128.12
|X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.168
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<4efm5f$6gv@ias2.ichange.com> 	alt.rap
				rec.music.hip-hop
				alt.binaries.rap
				alt.binaries.multimedia.rap
<4efmdu$6gv@ias2.ichange.com> 	alt.rap
				rec.music.hip-hop
				alt.binaries.rap
				alt.binaries.multimedia.rap
<4ebiet$lpr@news-e1a.megaweb.com> 	misc.transport.trucking
<310BE496.376E@aladdin.co.uk> 	rec.autos.antique
<163012.6602T65T2721@kenzie.demon.co.uk> 	comp.sys.amiga.applications
<310BF5F4.5831@ix.netcom.com> 	news.newusers.questions
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Best wishes,
Dick

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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
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