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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!neoucom.edu!neoucom.edu!redpoll!red 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