Path: alphanet.ch!imp.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.alt.net!gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us!not-for-mail From: clpda-request@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (clpda moderator) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce Subject: Guidelines for posting to comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 1 Nov 1998 20:00:06 GMT Organization: The moderator Lines: 192 Sender: clpda-request@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us Approved: clpda-request@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us Expires: 08 Dec 1998 00:00:01 GMT Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce iQBVAwUBNjy9xtmYHcxnQWIxAQF+3wH+MgYwhhmPdxaewLZxKk88rgJOMinsEO3U uOR3F4NFJ92j7EEH/wfNvUG/Wr8Hu25EXgbu96l9BEW5fbxlk0pQsQ== =rh90 Xref: alphanet.ch comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce:1137 Archive-name: clpda-guidelines.txt Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: August 1, 1997 Guidelines for posting to comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce CONTENTS 1.0 Content 1.1 General 1.2 Announcements 1.3 Periodic postings 2.0 Formatting of articles 2.1 Headers 2.2 Body format 2.3 Sigs 3.0 Submitting your article 3.1 General 3.2 Periodic postings ==== 1.0 Content === 1.1 General The newsgroup is moderated. In general, any article that contains information of interest to users of Borland Delphi will be posted. As stated in the charter, exceptions to this are articles related to employment and articles that include binaries or significant amounts of source code. Articles are approved for posting under the assumption that the author has the right to disclose any information released in the article and that the information given is substantially accurate. The moderator accepts no responsibility for violations of a Non Disclosure Agreement by the author of an article approved for posting. No fact checking will be done on articles beyond a simple test to see if FTP or WWW sites referred to actually exist and contain information related to Borland Delphi. Approval for posting does not constitute an endorsement of any kind. === 1.2 Announcements Announcements are one time articles that announce new or updated resources for users of Borland Delphi. Examples of such resources are: components, libraries, tools, books, magazines, WWW pages, FTP sites and users groups. Repetitive announcements will be rejected. When announcing an event that is to take place at a specific date and time, it is best to allow at least a week's lead time. Articles submitted on the day of the event will typically be rejected, since they probably would not propagate back to the originator's area in time to be useful. Articles that announce resources of more general interest will be approved only if, in the opinion of the moderator, they would be of interest to many Delphi users. Typically, announcements that an application was written in Delphi will not be approved unless the source code is available, custom components used in writing it are available and it serves as a good example of what can be done with them or the application is a tool that would be of use to Delphi programmers in and of itself. When preparing an article to announce that a new or updated component/library/utility is available at an archive, please: a) Give the full URL for the archive site (for mirrored sites give the primary, not the mirror you normally use). b) Be sure that the archive's maintainer has made the file(s) available. c) Indicate the section of the archive where it can be found, and the file name or name that it is linked under. This will make your file(s) easier to locate, both for the moderator and for other potential users. === 1.3 Periodic postings Periodic postings are informational articles such as FAQs and FAQ pointers that are posted on a regular basis. An example is this article, which is posted monthly. As with announcements, periodic postings should be of interest either to the users of Borland Delphi in general or to users of the Borland Delphi newsgroups in particular. ==== 2.0 Formatting of articles === 2.1 Headers All articles submitted must contain a valid, non-anonymous, e-mail address in the From or Reply-To header. The moderator may construct a Reply-To header from information given in the body or sig of the article or by unmangling a mangled From header. An article should have a Subject header that describes its contents. Use of the Summary and Keywords headers is also encouraged. If no Newsgroups header is given, the default posting will be to this group only. Since the rationale behind having an .announce group is to allow people interest in announcements to find them in a single newsgroup, crossposting, with the exception of periodic postings and articles that are part of the newsgroup creation process, is strongly discouraged. Articles crossposted to other moderated newsgroups, unrelated newsgroups, or more than five newsgroups in total will generally be returned with a request that the Newsgroups header be shortened. The Followup-To header should contain either the word "poster" or the name of a single newsgroup. If no Followup-To header is provided, it will be set to "poster". Periodic postings should include Archive-name, Posting-Frequency and Last-Modified supplementary headers, as this article does. === 2.1 Body format Articles should be sent as plain ASCII text. Articles that are UUEncoded or contain MIME codings will be rejected. The accepted limit on line lengths in a USENET article is 70-75 characters. Posts that have line lengths in excess of 79 characters may be rejected. Some software used in article composition and posting will word wrap based on the size of the editing window and again at 70-75 characters when the article is posted; such articles may be rejected as unreadable. Time and circumstances permitting, the moderator will re-word wrap articles instead of rejecting them. Regrettably, the moderator is fluent only in English. Articles written in another language must include a translation. === 2.3 Sigs The accepted limit on sigs is four lines. Articles that contain longer sigs may have them truncated and/or warlorded. ==== 3.0 Submitting your article === 3.1 General In most cases, simply posting to comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce will cause the article to be e-mailed to the moderator automatically. If for some reason this does not work, or you prefer not to trust the uncertainties of news server configuration and the relay system, the article can be submitted directly to the article submission address: . Incoming articles will generally be processed within 24 hours, and the authors will be notified by e-mail of their posting or rejection. Either method of submitting an article should generate a message from the moderator's auto-responder. If you would prefer not to receive this message, include the word 'norespond' in the Keywords header of your article. E-mail addresses requesting this will be recorded, and the auto-responder will ignore them thereafter. If no auto-responder message or acceptance/rejection note is received within 24 hours of posting an article, submitting a second copy by direct e-mail is probably advisable. If your article appears immediately without any comment from the moderator, the newsgroup is probably not properly marked as moderated on your server. In this case your article will generally be quietly dropped by servers that know that the group is moderated and will be canceled if it is propagated to a site that the moderator uses. Under such circumstances you should e-mail your article and politely ask your newsadmin to correct the active file. If you mangle your From header in an effort to avoid unsolicited commercial e-mail, the autoresponder message will generally not reach you. If your internet service provider is paranoid about who it accepts mail from, it is possible that the notice that your article has been posted or rejected will be prevented from reaching you. If you suspect that this is happening, you may want to ask your system administrator to read RFC 1480 and/or do an MX record lookup on the gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us domain. === 3.2 Periodic postings Articles that are being submitted as potential periodic postings should be e-mailed to the group administrative contact address: . Please be patient about getting a response, it may take a couple of days. -- Approval for posting does not constitute an endorsement. Articles posted to comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce are archived at: WWW: http://www.infonex.com/~dacroyle/clpda/