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- Subject: Re: bincancel:28 large binaries:AR284:@@NCM
- Message-ID: <ARMM-Report-284.a@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>
- References: <ARMM-Report-284@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:42:07 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
-
- 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 28 cancels for large binary files (average size 226,215
- characters - total size 6,334,007 characters) posted to 14 different
- unmoderated discussion groups in the misc, comp, and rec hierarchies
- (with cross-posts into alt groups) as follows:
- 8 comp.security.unix
- 5 comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
- alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc
- comp.lang.c++
- 2 rec.arts.manga
- 2 rec.arts.comics.strips
- 2 rec.arts.comics.misc
- 2 rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks
- 1 rec.arts.comics.other-media
- 1 misc.writing
- 1 misc.wanted
- 1 comp.sys.sun.admin
- 1 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
- 1 comp.mail.pine
- 1 rec.music.reggae
- alt.binaries.sounds.mods
-
- The cancels in non-targeted groups are an unavoidable consequence of
- the way cancels 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.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 AR284 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
-