Path: alphanet.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!lios!news.gweep.ca!not-for-mail From: comp.doc.techreports Moderator Newsgroups: comp.doc.techreports Subject: comp.doc.techreports Posting Guidelines Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:01:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Gweep Systems, Vancouver BC, Canada Lines: 128 Sender: cdtr@lios.aq2.gweep.ca Approved: cdtr-moderator@gweep.ca Distribution: world Expires: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 00:01:02 PDT Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Trace: lios.aq2.gweep.ca 1046505664 5056 127.0.0.1 (1 Mar 2003 08:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@lios.aq2.gweep.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:01:04 +0000 (UTC) Summary: This posting contains the charter and posting guidelines for the moderated newsgroup comp.doc.techreports. Xref: alphanet.ch comp.doc.techreports:490 Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3 (Perl 5.006) Archive-name: cdtr-intro.txt Posting-frequency: bimonthly Last-modified: 2002/04/04 00:14:02 Version: 1.6 URL: http://www.gweep.ca/~cdtr/guidelines.html comp.doc.techreports Posting Guidelines Copyright (c) 2000, Brian Edmonds $Revision: 1.6 $ $Date: 2002/04/04 00:14:02 $ The latest version of this document can be found at * http://www.gweep.ca/~cdtr/guidelines.html * send mail to majordomo@gweep.ca with the following line in the body: send faq cdtr-intro.txt Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group moderator at cdtr-moderator@gweep.ca. _________________________________________________________________ Contents * Introduction * Charter + Miscellaneous Policies * How To Submit a Post _________________________________________________________________ Introduction The comp.doc.techreports newsgroup dates from the early mists of Usenet history, with the first control message archived at ftp.isc.org being dated May 23, 1991. The original moderator was Laurence Leff through to 1990. The first mention of a moderator in an archived control message was Richard Golding in 1995. Submissions of historical details to fill out this section are welcome. Starting in the summer of 1998 the group became inactive until March 2000 when the moderation authority for the group was passed to Brian Edmonds, who is currently sole moderator. Since its creation a number of control messages have been sent which at some sites appear to have erroneously changed the status of the group to unmoderated. If this is the case at your site, you should bring it to the attention of your news admin, as any postings you make to a moderated group which is not properly recognized as such at your site will be silently discarded at any site where the group is correctly carried as moderated. _________________________________________________________________ Charter The oldest creation messages for the group describe it as simply "Lists of technical reports." In practice, any posting will be accepted which contains the following information related to a Computer Science technical report: * issuing institution or company and catalog number * title and author * abstract * how to retrieve the full report The subject of the post must be the report catalog number and title. The sender of the post may be either the author, or an individual at the company or institution who serves as the external contact for queries concerning technical reports (such as a librarian). Listings of multiple technical reports issued by a company or institution are also acceptable, and may omit (or shorten) the abstracts in the interest of brevity. Notices of reports in foreign languages are welcome, but must include an English translation of the abstract, and the subject line must also be in English. Miscellaneous Policies The moderator and the moderation software will also enforce the following policies: * Postings must be in plain text. In particular no HTML or mixed text and HTML posts will be allowed. * Postings must be formatted within 80 characters in width (limiting your lines to 72 characters is recommended), and also must not exhibit the long/short/long/short/etc misformatting that some posting agents can produce when misconfigured. * No binary postings of any sort will be accepted. Exceptions will be made for cryptographic signatures and such. S/MIME signatures are usually far too bulky and will probably not be accepted. * Crossposting to more than three newsgroups will not be allowed except under special circumstances. Contact the moderator if you feel you need to crosspost to comp.doc.techreports and more than two other groups. * Followups will be directed to poster unless otherwise specified. Like crossposting, no more than three newsgroups may be followed up to. All posts will first pass through a software agent which will either immediately reject the post and return it with a note explaining the reason for rejection, or will return an acknowledgement of receipt to the poster's email address. Moderation after that point is done manually and will vary in the time required. Posts deemed to be entirely spurious will be deleted unremarked; all others which are not accepted will be returned to the posting address with an explanation of the reason for rejection. Posting with a non-replyable address is strongly discouraged. If you feel you must post with such an address, please make sure you are not using one in a valid mail domain; appending .invalid to the address is the recommended way to ensure this. _________________________________________________________________ How To Submit a Post At a correctly configured site you should simply be able to post to comp.doc.techreports and everything will be managed for you behind the scenes. If you find this does not work for you, you can submit directly to the submission agent by mailing your posting to comp-doc-techreports@gweep.ca. Please try the newsgroup first, and be sure to bring any problems to the attention of your local news administrator so that they can be dealt with. _________________________________________________________________ Brian Edmonds $Date: 2002/04/04 00:14:02 $