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- From: cbip@cs.ulowell.edu (CBIP Moderator)
- Subject: v21inf01: policy, CBIP policy (part 01/01)
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- Originator: oneill@cs.ulowell.edu
- Keywords: cbip, policy
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:38:33 GMT
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- Submitted-by: oneill@cs.ulowell.edu
- Posting-number: Volume 21, Issue inf01
- Archive-name: admin/policy
-
- [Date of last change - 21-Jul-92]
-
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
-