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I have issued 8 cancels for large binary files (average size 428,068
characters - total size 3,424,544 characters) posted to 7 different
unmoderated discussion groups in the comp and rec hierarchies
as follows:
   2 rec.music.gdead
   1 rec.sport.golf
   1 rec.skiing.resorts.europe
   1 rec.models.scale
   1 rec.models.railroad
   1 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports
   1 comp.sys.amiga.graphics

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 biz, comp, misc, news, rec, sci
   BINARY: (uuencoded, .uue, .zip, .ps, .gif, .bmp, .tif, .sit etc...)

Note that these criteria are independent of the content of the binary
file.  If it is large enough, and if it is in an unmoderated group that
I scan, and if it doesn't make sense when viewed directly (I look at
each to be certain), then it is cancel fodder.

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.  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 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.  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: 932026 characters
|Path: ...!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!rainet!sabre
|From: sabre@rainet.com (Sabre@esslink.com)
|Newsgroups: rec.sport.golf
|Subject: Mod-sync articals description(info) [synclub.zip] (1/1)
|Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:10:32 GMT
|Message-ID: <96012206515943929@rainet.com>
|Organization: Random Access Information Network
|Distribution: world
|Lines: 15036     
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Size: 618397 characters
|Path: ...!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!ns2.ny.ubs.com!usenet
|From: Neil Jacobs <neil.z.h.j.c.n.jacobs@ubs.com>
|Newsgroups: rec.skiing.resorts.europe
|Subject: Map of North East French Resorts.
|Date: 22 Jan 1996 09:49:23 GMT
|Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland
|Lines: 8476
|Message-ID: <4dvmj3$p9q@ns2.ny.ubs.com>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.42.138
|Mime-Version: 1.0
|Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
|	boundary="-------------------------------324372420226486"
|X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 32bit)
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Size: 236499 characters
|Path: ...!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!jaxnet.jaxnet.com!ts2-025
|From: picau@jaxnet.com
|Newsgroups: rec.models.railroad
|Subject: Dad's Collection LIST..Page 2 - page2.jpg [01/01]
|Date: 22 Jan 1996 11:29:30 GMT
|Organization: Southeast Network Services, Inc.
|Lines: 3811
|Message-ID: <4dvseq$ojs@jaxnet.jaxnet.com>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: ts2-025.jaxnet.com
|X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4
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Size: 313262 characters
|Path: ...!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!phys.ksu.edu!jnorris
|From: jnorris@phys.ksu.edu (James Norris)
|Newsgroups: rec.models.scale
|Subject: reliant.gif [1/1]
|Date: 22 Jan 1996 16:20:44 GMT
|Organization: Kansas State University
|Lines: 5051
|Message-ID: <4e0dgs$7o9@newserv.ksu.ksu.edu>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu
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Size: 499310 characters
|Path: ...!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!nemesis.Berkeley.EDU!daemon
|From: Chris Forshay <FORSHAC@ceb.ucop.edu>
|Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
|Subject: max points data
|Date: 22 Jan 1996 18:21:43 GMT
|Organization: Berkeley dead-flames to USENET Gateway
|Lines: 8055
|Message-ID: <4e0kjn$ds6@agate.berkeley.edu>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: nemesis.berkeley.edu
|Originator: daemon@nemesis.Berkeley.EDU
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Size: 192039 characters
|Path: ...!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews
|From: rnpatton@ix.netcom.com (Reginald N Patton)
|Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports
|Subject: Re: Req: Hardball 5 Logo Library - hb5logos.zip (1/1)
|Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 18:39:44 GMT
|Organization: Netcom
|Lines: 3090
|Message-ID: <3103d9f0.4508139@smtp.ix.netcom.com>
|References: <4dscv9$vv@globe.indirect.com>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: atl-ga9-22.ix.netcom.com
|X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Jan 22 10:44:42 AM PST 1996
|X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.168
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Size: 499099 characters
|Path: ...!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!nemesis.Berkeley.EDU!daemon
|From: Chris Forshay <FORSHAC@ceb.ucop.edu>
|Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
|Subject: max points
|Date: 22 Jan 1996 22:49:51 GMT
|Organization: Berkeley dead-flames to USENET Gateway
|Lines: 8050
|Message-ID: <4e14af$lmj@agate.berkeley.edu>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: nemesis.berkeley.edu
|Originator: daemon@nemesis.Berkeley.EDU
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Size: 133912 characters
|Path: ...!sn.no!oslonett.no!sn.no!not-for-mail
|From: kjgudim (Kjell Gudim)
|Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
|Subject: Re: Anatomicaly Correct Human Skeleton Obj Needed Urg.
|Date: 23 Jan 1996 00:04:26 +0100
|Organization: SN Internett
|Lines: 2127
|Message-ID: <133268.6595T1432T1400@Th0r.foo.bar>
|References: <762.6588T1426T592@Th0r.foo.bar> <1268.6594T68T291@ci.educ.lu>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: sinsen.sn.no
|X-Newsreader: THOR 2.21 (Amiga;SOUP)
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Issuer: red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (Richard E. Depew)
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<96012206515943929@rainet.com> 	rec.sport.golf
<4dvmj3$p9q@ns2.ny.ubs.com> 	rec.skiing.resorts.europe
<4dvseq$ojs@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> 	rec.models.railroad
<4e0dgs$7o9@newserv.ksu.ksu.edu> 	rec.models.scale
<4e0kjn$ds6@agate.berkeley.edu> 	rec.music.gdead
<3103d9f0.4508139@smtp.ix.netcom.com> 	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports
<4e14af$lmj@agate.berkeley.edu> 	rec.music.gdead
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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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