--- Attention News Administrator ---

This user has posted a binary-encoded message in violation
of the austin.* guidelines.  This posting was automatically
detected by the austin.* abuse 'bot, and an advisory
net-abuse cancelation has been issued against it.

Please help ensure that your user understands proper Usenet
netiquette and the austin.* guidelines
<http://www.unicom.com/pw/austx-usenet-list>.

A (possibly abbreviated) version of the posting is attached
to this message.  If you need a complete copy, all canceled
messages are archived at
<http://www.unicom.com/net-abuse/ab-archive.html>.

Thanks for your help on making austin.* a clean and sparkly place!

--- Attention USENET Poster ---

You have posted a message with a large binary attachment to an
austin.* discussion newsgroup.  This is a netiquette violation and
an abuse of the austin.* newsgroups.  An advisory network-abuse
cancelation has been issued against your posting.  The cancelation
requests that all news servers delete your message due to abuse.

Binary attachments are a gross abuse of network resources.  These
attachments typically consume ten to a HUNDRED times the resources
of a plain text message.  Binary postings are OK in certain newsgroups
that are set aside for them -- such as the alt.binaries.* hierarchy.
Otherwise -- and particularly in discussion newsgroups -- they are
not accepted.

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO

In the future, post a plain, text message, and offer the binary
information (photo, sound clip, whatever) upon request.
Interested people will contact you, and you may email them a
copy of the information.  If you have access to an FTP or WWW
server, you can provide the information there for people to
download.

BEFORE YOU POST

The fact that you've posted a binary to a discussion group
suggests that you might not be fully aware of the appropriate
uses of the net.  If you are a local Austin-area user, please
try to familiarize yourself with the guidelines on netiquette,
and then take another shot at it (without the binary this
time!).

If, however, you are not from Austin and are not posting about
Austin, then we'd strongly prefer that you go away and stop
abusing our newsgroup.  In particular, if you are trying to
post a chain letter or some sort of advertisement, your message
is NOT acceptable in the austin.* newsgroups and could be
subject to cancelation.

    References:

	My Policies and Procedures for Network Abuse Handling
	    http://www.unicom.com/net-abuse/

	The bincancel FAQ
	    http://www.geniac.net/bincancel/

    Other Resources:

	The Indiana University Usenet Information Center
	    http://scwww.ucs.indiana.edu/NetRsc/usenet.html

	The news.announce.newusers Newsgroup
	    news:news.announce.newusers

	RFC1855 - Netiquette Guidelines
	    http://www.cybernothing.org/cno/docs/rfc1855.html

	The Net Abuse FAQ
	    http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html

	The Cancel FAQ
	    http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/cancel.html

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