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MRC@Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes:

>THIS IS A MESSAGE IN 'MIME' FORMAT.  Your news reader does not support
>MIME.  Perhaps you should get new software.

In addition to the objections others have raised, let me add a few as
a news administrator.

USENET is not a good medium for transmitting large files; some of the 
transport methods don't do too well.  There's a defacto limit of 64k
per single article; larger postings are supposed to be split up.  This
MIME posting was over 700k.

Comp.sys.next.misc is a discussion group, and as such typically enjoys
a longer expiry time than groups for binaries.  Binaries such as this
sound file are wholly inappropriate here.  I can assure you that there
are systems on which an unexpected, long-lived 700k article will
really screw up news operations.  A news administrator's first defense
in these cases is to give the group a short expire time (I use three
days for binaries groups vs. about 12 for discussion groups).

Mr. Crispin, let me suggest that in the future, if you want to make
a point, do it in such a way that you don't draw so much negative 
attention to yourself or the groups you read.
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