Subject: Re: bincancel:75 large binaries:AR314:@@NCM

From: [email-masked] (Richard E. Depew)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:31:34 GMT

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 75 advisory cancels for large binary files or parts
thereof (total size 4,737,368 characters) posted to 15 different
unmoderated discussion groups in the rec, news, comp, and sci
hierarchies as follows:
  22 sci.geo.rivers+lakes
  22 sci.engr.civil
  13 sci.bio.fisheries
  11 sci.geo.hydrology
   3 rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
   1 rec.bicycles.marketplace
	rec.bicycles.misc
	rec.bicycles.off-road
	rec.bicycles.racing
	rec.bicycles.rides
	rec.bicycles.soc
	rec.bicycles.tech
   1 news.newusers.questions
   1 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc
   1 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted

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.  The
full report can also be found in alt.nocem.misc and alt.retromod.
Look for AR314 in the subject, or, if your reader supports it, use
this URL: news:[email-masked]

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, 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 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 [email-masked].  Thanks.

Best wishes,
Dick
-- 
Richard E. Depew, Munroe Falls, OH    [email-masked] (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