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From news.funet.fi!fuug!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!umassd.edu!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!oneill Tue Feb 2 09:23:36 EET 1993
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From: cbip@cs.ulowell.edu (CBIP Moderator)
Subject: v21inf01: policy, CBIP policy (part 01/01)
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Posting-number: Volume 21, Issue inf01
Archive-name: admin/policy
[Date of last change - 20-Jan-93]
CBIP Submissions and Posting Policy
Brian O'Neill, Moderator, comp.binaries.ibm.pc
INTRODUCTION
comp.binaries.ibm.pc, or CBIP for short, is a UseNet newsgroup for the
purpose of distributing programs for the IBM PC and clones. The exact
definition of a PC is fuzzy, but generally an Intel 80*86-based computer
running MS-DOS or PC-DOS. A separate newsgroup exists for OS/2 users.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
Programs that are of general use or interest to many people are good
submissions. Programs that would only be useful to a select group of people
would not be ideal, because of the method of distribution and costs
involved.
Such programs should run directly under MS-DOS. MS Windows programs should
be submitted to comp.binaries.ms-windows. OS/2 programs should be submitted
to comp.binaries.os2.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submissions can be packed with any major archiver, but I prefer that they be
submitted in either zoo or zip format. However, avoid send self-extracting
archives.
There are two ways to submit, via e-mail or ftp.
By e-mail: The submission should be sent in UUencoded format to the address
"cbip@cs.ulowell.edu". Programs which when encoded are larger than 50k in
size should be split and e-mailed as separate parts. the subject of the
submission should be of the form:
Subject: progname (part XX/XX) description
Where progname should be the program identifier, such as the name of the zoo
or zip file, without the zoo or zip at the end. If there is only one part,
still include the (part XX/XX) section, and use 01 for both of the XX's.
part01 should also contain a good description of the program before the
beginning of uuencoded text.
By ftp: Submissions can be uploaded to the system ftp.ulowell.edu (currently
129.63.32.1, but use the name if you can, as it moves around) into the
directory cbip-submit. Once the transfer is completed, _immediately_ send
e-mail to cbip@cs.ulowell.edu, telling me what name it was under and what it
is (good descriptions help), with "FTP:" being the first thing in the
Subject.
POSTING POLICIES
All submissions are rigorously checked by several people using the latest
available virus scanners, and checked to see if they work as advertised.
Naturally, not all combinations of hardware and software configurations can
be checked, so it is possible for a posted program not to work in some
cases, and it is possible that a virus program may esacpe detection. Use the
posted programs at your own risk - I accept no responsibility.
Anything that is of interest will be posted. Utilities are usually considered
to most useful. Games will be posted as well, but utilities get top billing.
Please make an effort to insure that what you have is the latest version.
Out-of-date programs slow down the process.
PROCESSING
Generally, things are tested in order, the posted in the same order they
arrive. However, some programs may have special requirements which all the
testers might not be able to meet, so testing may be delayed. Updates to
previous programs which had possibly dangerous bugs will go out more
quickly. Extremely important packages, such as virus protection software,
will be posted almost immediately after verification.
All postings will be posted in ZOO 2.10 format. This will require ZOO 2.10
or better or BOOZ 2.0 to extract the posting. Possible exceptions would be
the posting of other archivers in self-extracting format, or programs using
the authentication routines of the archiver.
All parts of a posting will contain a brik checksum for verification, and
the first part will contain BSD checksums for all parts and the resulting
file. All parts are compatible with the combine shell script for decoding
the parts.
QUESTIONS
Questions should be referred to cbip-request@cs.ulowell.edu.
REPOSTS
Parts will be reposted only if a large number of sites is missing the part
or there was some curruption of the post. I will _NOT_ repost a part because
one or two people didn't get it, nor will I e-mail the part. parts are
available via ftp from ftp.ulowell.edu in directory comp.binaries.ibm.pc, or
via e-mail to cbipserv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu with a message body containing
lines of the form
sendme vXXiYYY
where XX is the volume number and YYY is the issue number. Parts are
available from the server for 30 days. You can also give the command 'help'
to get more extensive information about this server.