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I have issued 1 cancel for a large binary file (size 494,918
characters) posted to comp.sys.amiga.misc.

The criteria used to search for this batch of large binaries were:
   SIZE: > 120,000 characters
   NEWSGROUPS: Unmoderated 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 (and soon will 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 size and headers of the canceled binary follow:
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Size: 494918 characters
|Path: ...!jobone!fiesta.srl.ford.com!news.tbd.ford.com!usenet
|From: Chris \"Big-Kahuna\" Rampson <crampson@ford.com>
|Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
|Subject: Re: FaaastPrep / ExpertPrep needed!
|Date: 22 Jan 1996 16:17:02 GMT
|Organization: Ford Motor Co. -- Standard disclaimers apply.
|Lines: 7984
|Message-ID: <4e0d9u$r48@tbd120.tbd.ford.com>
|References: <4dru7s$ok8@tron.sci.fi>
|NNTP-Posting-Host: ave050.ve.ford.com
|Mime-Version: 1.0
|Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
|	boundary="-------------------------------10534236967601"
|X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/715)
|To: avenom@sci.fi
|X-URL: file:/export/ford/ave050/u/rampson/doc/gvp.uue
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Version: 0.9
Issuer: red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (Richard E. Depew)
Type: binary
Action: hide
Count: 1
Notice-ID: ARMM-report-93@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us
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<4e0d9u$r48@tbd120.tbd.ford.com> 	comp.sys.amiga.misc
@@END NCM BODY

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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