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- I have issued 1 cancel for a large binary file (size 494,918
- characters) posted to comp.sys.amiga.misc.
-
- The criteria used to search for this batch of large binaries were:
- SIZE: > 120,000 characters
- NEWSGROUPS: Unmoderated biz, comp, misc, news, rec, or sci
- BINARY: (.zip, .jpg, .avi, .exe, .sit, .bmp, .bin, .wav, .gif,
- .dwg, .fon, uuencoded and base64 encoded files, etc.)
-
- The contents of the files are not relevant to these criteria for
- classifying an article as a "large binary". This is something that
- can be (and soon will be) done by a simple program.
-
- The cancels follow the "<cancel.", "cyberspam!", "bincancel!",
- and "X-Canceled-By: " conventions. News administrators may block
- these cancel messages specifically by aliasing out "bincancel" or
- generally by aliasing out "cyberspam".
-
- In my opinion, the best way to distribute binary files is via ftp or
- the web. With the ready availablity of ftpmail servers, even uucp
- sites can retrieve binaries from ftp sites.
-
- However, if you really must post a binary to Usenet, please post it to
- an appropriate binaries newsgroup such as alt.binaries.misc. Then, if
- you like, post something in the appropriate discussion group telling
- people where to find the binary in the binaries group (a "pointer" to
- the binary). This will permit news administrators and users to decide
- for themselves whether to receive the binary files.
-
- There has been a long-standing consensus among news administrators that
- binaries belong in binaries newsgroups, and not elsewhere. There also
- seems to be an emerging consensus supporting the cancellation of large
- binaries in discussion groups as long as appropriate protocols are
- followed. I am testing that consensus and developing a protocol.
-
- Please direct public feedback to news.admin.net-abuse.misc and private
- feedback to myself at red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us. If there is an
- unmoderated binaries group in the hierarchies that I scan, I don't know
- about it yet. Feel free to enlighten me.
-
- The size and headers of the canceled binary follow:
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- |Path: ...!jobone!fiesta.srl.ford.com!news.tbd.ford.com!usenet
- |From: Chris \"Big-Kahuna\" Rampson <crampson@ford.com>
- |Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- |Subject: Re: FaaastPrep / ExpertPrep needed!
- |Date: 22 Jan 1996 16:17:02 GMT
- |Organization: Ford Motor Co. -- Standard disclaimers apply.
- |Lines: 7984
- |Message-ID: <4e0d9u$r48@tbd120.tbd.ford.com>
- |References: <4dru7s$ok8@tron.sci.fi>
- |NNTP-Posting-Host: ave050.ve.ford.com
- |Mime-Version: 1.0
- |Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
- | boundary="-------------------------------10534236967601"
- |X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/715)
- |To: avenom@sci.fi
- |X-URL: file:/export/ford/ave050/u/rampson/doc/gvp.uue
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- Version: 0.9
- Issuer: red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (Richard E. Depew)
- Type: binary
- Action: hide
- Count: 1
- Notice-ID: ARMM-report-93@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us
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- <4e0d9u$r48@tbd120.tbd.ford.com> comp.sys.amiga.misc
- @@END NCM BODY
-
- Best wishes,
- Dick
-
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- --
- 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
- --
- All postings to news.admin.net-abuse.announce are unconfirmed and
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- expressed above are considered the opinions of the original poster,
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-
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- http://www.math.psu.edu/barr/net-abuse-guidelines.html
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