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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Cancer / February 2005Misrepresentation of ASC by Usenet Replayer
Usenet Replayer is misrepresenting alt.support.cancer as a binary newsgroup. Per the existing Usenet rules alt.support.cancer is limited to text only. "The golden rule on Usenet Do not post binaries to non-binaries groups. Unless a group lives within alt.binaries it is forbidden to send binary (non-text) attachments (pictures, sounds, music, movies etc) with a message." Replayer is irreponsibly placing advertising for Chinese remedies in the page thus giving the appearance that they are part of the alt.support.cancer newsgroup archives: http://www.usenet-replayer.com/groups/alt.support.cancer.html "Binary directory of the news group alt.support.cancer from usenet-replayer" Here are some reasons why alt.support.cancer is not a binaries group: http://www.landfield.com/usenet/alt/notes/alt-binaries.html http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/misplacedbin.html I do not know how long this has been going on. We need to contact the operator to see if we can get him to stop misrepresenting this newsgroup. Registrant: Hans Carlos Hofmann Friedensstr. 8 Berghausen Asslar, . 35614 Germany I do not want to post Hans' email address on the group. To get the email address go to http://www.whois.sc/usenet-replayer.com and click the line at the bottom to reveal it. If you have the time please read the links and email Hans. Jerry > http://www.usenet-replayer.com/groups/alt.support.cancer.html > "Binary directory of the news group alt.support.cancer from [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Jerry I read this yesterday, the site is very misleading. It is not a very good search engine for binaries either <G>. My understanding binaries are a way to send audio or video files, most them are porn sites, am I correct? Thanks I will send Hans an email, but doubt it may do much good. It is awful how people take information we post and use it for profit. Alex >> http://www.usenet-replayer.com/groups/alt.support.cancer.html >> "Binary directory of the news group alt.support.cancer from [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > My understanding binaries are a way to send audio or video files, most them > are porn sites, am I correct? Not all binary groups are bad. There are some woodworking, etc. newsgroups that show pictures of their work and ask for comments. But there are a lot of skanky newsgroups also. The name of the group will usually tell what sort of images you may find there. > Thanks I will send Hans an email, but doubt it may do much good. It is > awful how people take information we post and use it for profit. > Alex He does not like spam or complaints so the email is being bounced at the whois email address. According to the RFCs he has to provide a working email address for problems or complaints; i.e. postmaster@domainname or abuse@domainname (Substitute usenet-replayer.com for domainname) Try webmaster@domainname as that is in the link "If you want to add your service here, please contact the webmaster to get an offer." I used that email address 15 minutes ago and it has not bounced at the time this was written. Jerry guesswho@guesswho.com said... > I read this yesterday, the site is very misleading. It is not a very good > search engine for binaries either <G>. > My understanding binaries are a way to send audio or video files, most them > are porn sites, am I correct? Not necessarily; they can be useful sources of information since they are archives for photographs on all sorts of stuff from e.g. apple growing to zoology. There are others, of course, that one might be a little less keen to see... <quick plug> news.individual.net does not allow posting to binary groups and does not even carry them for reading. It's a useful safeguard. Besides which, generally speaking all the stuff that's posted on binary NGs is sure to come to light with a quick search through Google's images library etc, so it's not even needed on Usenet. </plug>  SignatureIf you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs... then you've failed to grasp some important aspect of the situation. > guesswho@guesswho.com said... > > My understanding binaries are a way to send audio or video files, most them [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > from e.g. apple growing to zoology. There are others, of > course, that one might be a little less keen to see... my sheds? <g> J anon@example.org said... > > guesswho@guesswho.com said... > > > My understanding binaries are a way to send audio or video files, most them [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > my sheds? <g> You've been peeking! Or Googling... ;-) SignatureIf you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs... then you've failed to grasp some important aspect of the situation. > anon@example.org said... > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > You've been peeking! Or Googling... ;-) Em, I might be feeble minded and/or sleepy at the mo, but why would I post photos of my ugly sheds on any newsgroup? Worse yet, why would I Google them? Wouldn't I remember where I put them? And no, I haven't peeked in my ugly sheds in the past few days. Should I? If so, why? <g> J- giggling..at an apparent misunderstanding of my post. anon@example.org said... > There are others, of > > > > course, that one might be a little less keen to see... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Em, I might be feeble minded and/or sleepy at the mo, but why would I post photos of > my ugly sheds on any newsgroup? Ah. Sorry, that's my fault. I thought you were making reference to another sort of shed entirely. There's one on Usenet, you see... SignatureIf you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs... then you've failed to grasp some important aspect of the situation. > Ah. Sorry, that's my fault. I thought you were making > reference to another sort of shed entirely. There's one on > Usenet, you see... I see. pat, pat, pat, have a chockie...you'll (we;ll both) be fine in the a.m. :-) J anon@example.org said... > > Ah. Sorry, that's my fault. I thought you were making > > reference to another sort of shed entirely. There's one on > > Usenet, you see... > > I see. > pat, pat, pat, have a chockie...you'll (we;ll both) be fine in the a.m. :-) <g> SignatureIf you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs... then you've failed to grasp some important aspect of the situation. > Usenet Replayer is misrepresenting alt.support.cancer as a binary > newsgroup. Per the existing Usenet rules alt.support.cancer is limited to [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > "Binary directory of the news group alt.support.cancer from > usenet-replayer" I don't agree with his response: "This is a historical definition, today within a lot of newgroup containing binarie stuff without residental in binaries.*" "Usenet-replayer describes only a newsgroup like it is." He did fix the page and removed the Chinese medicine ads. There is no reason to pursue this further, unless the ads return. Jerry ><snip> >> message." > I don't agree with his response: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Jerry good work, Jerry, thanks, alex |
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