Re: some (should-be) ground-rules for submissions to comp.binaries.*

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From: Barbara Dyker
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1988 00:31

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In article <8297@dhw68k.cts.com> bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long) writes:
>In article <699@lakesys.UUCP> macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) suggests
>standardizing using StuffIt for packing/compression.
>
>What matters most (to me) for submitting things to comp.{binaries,sources}.mac
>is that 
> [long list of good guidlines deleted]

What would also take some load off the net would be a REGULAR posting in
comp.binaries.* of a list of submittal guidlines AND the procedures AND
software required to unpack/hex the posting!!!

The net is all too often cluttered with requests for BinHex, StuffIt, PackIt...
and hasty articles about not being able to unbinhex 4.0 with 5.0, and "what's
a .pit file?"

I did my stuggling as a newbie - let's get some info out for those that
are new to the net so that it works for all of us.

Or shall we ignore newbies like someone suggested we ignore non-programmers??

Barb Dyker		CSNET:	dyker@boulder.Colorado.EDU
			UUNET:	...rutgers!ncar!dinl!tosgcla!dyker
"Do what you will with my employer, but leave me alone."

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From: dyker@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Barbara Dyker)
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Subject: Re: some (should-be) ground-rules for submissions to comp.binaries.*
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Date: 1 Jun 88 00:31:18 GMT
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