Re: bincancel:15 large binaries:AR1004:_at_@NCM

From: Richard E. Depew <red_at_redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>
Date: 1997/03/25
Message-ID: <ARMM-Report-1004.a_at_redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>#1/1

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 15 cancels for large binary files (average size 213,634 characters - total size 3,204,511 characters) posted to 12 different unmoderated discussion groups in the comp and rec hierarchies (with cross-posts into into alt and chi groups) as follows:

   4 rec.music.makers.guitar

        rec.music.compose

   3 rec.autos.marketplace
   1 rec.sport.volleyball
   1 rec.sport.squash
	alt.sport.squash
   1 rec.outdoors.fishing.saltwater

   1 rec.outdoors.fishing
   1 rec.autos.marketplace

        chi.forsale
   1 rec.autos.antique

	alt.autos.antique
	rec.autos.misc
	rec.autos.sport.misc

   1 comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
   1 comp.databases.oracle.tools

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 AR1004 in the subject, or, if your reader supports it, use <URL:news:ARMM-Report-1004_at_redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>.

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:http://www.southcom.com.au/~geniac/binfaq.txt>.

Please direct public feedback to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet and private feedback to red_at_redpoll.mrfs.oh.us. In the interests of preventing 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,
Dick

-- 
Richard E. Depew, Munroe Falls, OH    red_at_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, _The Pickwick Papers_

Received on Tue Mar 25 1997 - 00:00:00 CET