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- Subject: Re: bincancel:14 large binaries:AR149:@@NCM
- Message-ID: <ARMM-Report-149.a@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>
- References: <ARMM-Report-149@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 01:35:20 GMT
- From: red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (Richard E. Depew)
- Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.misc
- Organization: ARMM Services BINCANCEL division
- Keywords: ARMM
-
- 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
- hierachies.
-
- I have issued 14 cancels for large binary files (average size 124,993
- characters - total size 1,749,913 characters) posted to 14 different
- unmoderated discussion groups in the comp and sci hierarchies as
- follows:
- 1 sci.med.vision
- 1 sci.med.telemedicine
- 1 sci.med.psychobiology
- 1 sci.med.prostate.prostatitis
- 1 sci.med.prostate.cancer
- 1 sci.med.physics
- 1 sci.med.nursing
- 1 sci.med.informatics
- 1 sci.med.immunology
- 1 sci.med.diseases.hepatitis
- 1 sci.med.diseases.cancer
- 1 sci.med.diseases.als
- 1 sci.med.dentistry
- 1 comp.sys.amiga.misc
-
- This pointer is being posted to each affected group, listed above.
-
- If you want to see exactly which file was deleted from a particular
- group, or the criteria that I used to select it, read the full report
- in news.admin.net-abuse.announce. Look for AR149 as in the
- subject of this pointer. The full report can also be found in
- alt.nocem.misc and alt.retromod.
-
- There has been a long-standing consensus among news administrators that
- binaries belong in binaries newsgroups, and not elsewhere. There also
- seems to be a consensus supporting the cancellation of large binaries in
- discussion groups as long as appropriate protocols are followed.
-
- 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.
-
- 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
-