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Newsgroups: alt.retromod,biz.marketplace.international,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.bugs.2bsd,comp.sys.mac.apps,misc.education.home-school.christian,misc.kids.computer,rec.games.misc,rec.humor,rec.nude
Subject: Re: bincancel:21 large binaries:AR293:@@NCM
Message-ID: <ARMM-Report-293.a@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>
References: <ARMM-Report-293@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 16:24:52 GMT
From: red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (Richard E. Depew)
Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.misc
Organization: ARMM Services, Bincancel Division
Keywords: ARMM - Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation
Lines: 52
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au biz.marketplace.international:30132 comp.ai.philosophy:36222 comp.bugs.2bsd:639 comp.sys.mac.apps:143301 misc.education.home-school.christian:8915 misc.kids.computer:7924 rec.games.misc:34131 rec.humor:163345 rec.nude:55823

Binary posts do not belong in unmoderated discussion groups.

I run a program that searchs for, and issues advisory cancels for,
large binaries in the akr, biz, comp, misc, news, rec, and sci
hierarchies.

I have issued 21 cancels for large binary files (average size 68,662
characters - total size 1,441,902 characters) posted to 9 different
unmoderated discussion groups in the misc, comp, biz, and rec
hierarchies as follows:
   6 misc.kids.computer
   4 rec.games.misc
   3 misc.education.home-school.christian
   3 biz.marketplace.international
   1 rec.nude
   1 rec.humor
   1 comp.sys.mac.apps
   1 comp.bugs.2bsd *
   1 comp.ai.philosophy

* The cancels in comp.bugs.2bsd are mistakes for which I apologize.  I
  have configured the cancelbot to ignore comp.bogs.2bsd from now on.

This pointer is being posted to each affected group listed above.
Follow-ups are directed to news.admin.net-abuse.misc.

If you want to see exactly which file was deleted from a particular
group, read the full report in news.admin.net-abuse.announce.  Look
for AR293 in the subject.  The full report can also be found in
alt.nocem.misc and alt.retromod.

The criteria used to search for this batch of large binaries were:
   NEWSGROUPS: Unmoderated akr, biz, comp, misc, news, rec, or sci
	       (except for comp.binaries.apple2 and rec.games.bolo)
   BINARY: (base64, binhex, uuencode, and xbtoa encoded files, etc.)
   SIZE: > 100,000 characters (size * number of parts, if multi-part)

If you must post a binary to Usenet, please post it *only* to an
appropriate binaries newsgroup such as alt.binaries.misc, and do *not*
crosspost it to non-binaries groups.  This permits news administrators
and users to decide for themselves whether to receive binary files.

Please direct public feedback to news.admin.net-abuse.misc and private
feedback to red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us.  Thanks.

Best wishes,
Dick
-- 
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