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 6 cancels for large binary files (average size 184,927
characters - total size 1,109,564 characters) posted to 6 different
unmoderated discussion groups in the comp, rec, and soc hierarchies
as follows:
1 soc.penpals
1 soc.culture.malaysia
1 rec.boats.paddle
1 rec.autos.simulators
1 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.naval
1 comp.lang.c
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 AR1144 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]
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_
