Large binary posts do not belong in unmoderated discussion groups.
Please read this entire message, the Bincancel FAQ, and the complete
report (see below) before following up to or responding to this article.
As a service to, and with the cooperation of, other news administrators,
I run a program that searches for, and issues advisory cancels for,
large binaries in the akr, biz, comp, humanities, misc, news, nz, rec,
sci, soc, and talk hierarchies.
I have issued 16 cancels for large binary files (average size 248,069
characters - total size 3,969,097 characters) posted to 12 different
unmoderated discussion groups in the comp, news, rec, sci, and soc
hierarchies (with cross-posts into alt groups) as follows:
5 soc.culture.turkish
1 soc.culture.vietnamese
1 soc.culture.filipino
1 sci.astro
alt.fan.art-bell
alt.prophecies.nostradamus
1 rec.games.mud.tiny
1 rec.games.mud.lp
1 rec.games.mud.admin
1 rec.collecting
1 rec.autos.simulators
1 rec.audio.car
1 news.newusers.questions
1 comp.os.msdos.programmer
The unnumbered newsgroups in the list are not separate posts, but
are cross-postings of the articles represented by the preceeding
numbered items. Cross-posting may lead to cancels in non-targeted
groups as a consequence of the way cross-posts 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.usenet.
If you want to see exactly which file was deleted from a particular
group, read the full report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. The
full report can also be found in news.lists.filters and alt.retromod.
Look for AR947 in the subject, or, if your reader supports it,
The criteria used to search for this batch of large binaries were:
NEWSGROUPS: Unmoderated groups in the akr, biz, comp, humanities,
misc, news, rec, nz, sci, soc, and talk hierarchies
(except for comp.binaries.apple2, comp.bugs.2bsd, and
rec.games.bolo)
BINARY: base64, binhex, uuencode, and xbtoa encoded files, etc.
SIZE: > 100,000 characters [(size * (# of parts - .5)), if multi-part]
If you must post a binary to Usenet, please post it *only* to an
appropriate binaries newsgroup such as one in the alt.binaries
sub-hierarchy, and do *not* crosspost it to non-binaries groups.
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.
For more information about binary cancels, see the bincancel FAQ,
<URL:[link lost in import: /~geniac/binfaq.txt]>.
Please direct public feedback to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet and private
cross-posted flame wars, please honor the followup-to header and do
*not* cross-post your reply to multiple groups. Thank you for your
cooperation.
Best wishes,
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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***ens, _The Pickwick Papers_
