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Newsgroups: rec.music.info,rec.answers,news.answers
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From: rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: REC.MUSIC.INFO: Submission Guidelines for rec.music.info
Summary: This is a bi-weekly article that gives some guidelines that I would
really appreciate being followed if you want to submit something to
rec.music.info. Nothing very fancy, so don't be afraid to submit...!
Originator: dallin@CS.ColoState.EDU
Message-ID: <rec-music-info-guidelines_765763928@cs.colostate.edu>
Supersedes: <rec-music-info-guidelines_764557923@cs.colostate.edu>
Approved: rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl
Date: 8 Apr 94 00:12:17 GMT
Expires: 5 May 1994 00:12:08 GMT
Reply-To: dallin@cs.colostate.edu
Nntp-Posting-Host: beethoven.cs.colostate.edu
Followup-To: rec.music.misc
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Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu rec.music.info:3055 rec.answers:4801 news.answers:17804
Archive-name: music/rec-music-info/guidelines
Last-modified: 1993/12/08 14:46:56
Version: 2.2
*** rec.music.info - Submission Guidelines and Etiquette ***
Two introductory articles about rec.music.info are posted to the group
every two weeks. You are now reading the second article, which explains how
to submit something to rec.music.info, and which answers some Frequently
Asked Questions about the submission process. The first article is titled
"Welcome to rec.music.info", and it might be a good idea to check it out as
well, if you haven't already.
By the way: many Usenet informational articles (or FAQs), including this
one, are available for anonymous ftp from the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in
the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is
archived appears is the one that appears in the 'Archive-name' line at the
top of the article. The FAQ you are now reading is, for instance, archived
as music/rec-music-info/guidelines.
If you can't do or don't know about ftp: the FAQs are also available from a
mail server. Just send an e-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
containing the word "help" in the body of the message.
--- How do I submit something to rec.music.info?
Two possibilities. You can use your newsreading software to just post the
article to rec.music.info, as you would do with any other newsgroup. The
difference is that the software recognizes the special status of r.m.info
as a moderated group, and will e-mail your article to me, the moderator,
instead of posting it to the group.
Alternatively, you can mail your article directly to me at the following
address:
rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl
If you decide to mail, you can still use any Usenet specific header lines
you want (e.g. Newsgroups, Followup-To, Summary, etc.): just include them
as the very first line in your e-mail and use a blank line to separate them
from the actual text of the article.
--- What type of material is considered inappropriate?
There are two broad categories of articles which will be rejected:
1] Requests for information. Rec.music.info is strictly a one-way street.
You people send me information; I then post it to r.m.info. Requests for
specific information belong in the normal newsgroups. If your request gets
answered, you might consider passing the answer on to r.m.info, though.
This policy may strike you as counterintuitive at first, but please be
aware that the "no requests" guideline has always been an integral part of
the r.m.info charter.
2] Reviews. There already is a dedicated, moderated newsgroup for musical
reviews: rec.music.reviews. All reviews should go there.
Most music-related articles that do not fall into these two categories tend
to get accepted, although as moderator I reserve the right to reject an
article if I feel that the subject matter is not of suffcient interest, or
the information level is not high enough to warrant posting to a world-wide
newsgroup.
--- How soon will I see my article appear?
Usually between one and three days after you post it. If your posting never
appears this means something must have gone wrong: I never reject anything
without giving an explanation in e-mail.
Please note that your article will generally be processed much faster if
you follow the format guidelines explained below. 'Perfect' articles I can
send on with just two keystrokes. Stuff that needs editing is going to have
to wait until I have time to do so.
--- Should my submission be in a specific format?
Every article in a newsgroup consists of a header (containing the From,
Subject, Newsgroups and other header lines), and a body (containing the
text of the article). The deal is as follows:
When you post to rec.music.info, you can rely on the fact that I will never
ever mess with the body of the article. I don't spell-check, I don't edit,
I don't reformat, I don't do anything except decide if the article as a
whole is appropriate for rec.music.info.
The headers, however, are all mine: I will add default header lines in case
you omitted any, and although I will of course generally honor the header
lines you do supply, I always reserve the right to edit or change any of
them if I am not satisfied with the way they are.
--- Ok, tell me more about the header format.
I honor the following header lines: From, Subject, Newsgroups, Followup-To,
Reply-To, Organization, Summary and Keywords.
The last three are entirely optional. The other ones aren't strictly
required either, but if you don't supply them I will add them to the final
article with the following default values:
Reply-To -- the address in the From line.
Newsgroups -- rec.music.info
Followup-To -- the groups you explicitly crossposted your article to
OR rec.music.misc if you didn't specify a crosspost.
Please use the Newsgroups line to have your article crossposted to other
newsgroups (if appropriate), instead of making separate postings. I reserve
the right to remove newsgroups from the Newsgroups line if I feel you are
crossposting too widely or to inappropriate groups.
I also honor 'advanced' header lines like Expires and Supersedes, but if
you plan to use those please e-mail me first so we can set things up
correctly.
--- You haven't mentioned the Subject line yet!
An absolute requirement for Subject lines is that each line starts with an
appropriate category keyword word in all caps, followed by a colon and a
space (see also the "Welcome to rec.music.info" article for more
information about categories).
Apart from this, there are some additional format suggestions for each
category, as follows:
RELEASE subjects consist of the name of the artist, optionally followed
by a release item name in quotes, and finally a secondary subject
categorization between square brackets.
Examples: "RELEASE: Rush, "Rush Sings Mariah Carey" [Album]
"RELEASE: Rush, "Live at the Apollo" [Video + Box]
"RELEASE: Rush [Single]
MAILINGLIST subjects consist of the name of the artist or genre
covered, optionally followed by a list name in quotes, and finally a
secondary subject categorization between square brackets: 'New' for the
announcement of a new mailing list, 'Update' for a change to an
existing list, and 'Blurb' for mailing list advertisements.
Examples: "MAILINGLIST: Queensryche, "Screaming In Digital" [Blurb]
"MAILINGLIST: Noseflute List [Update]
"MAILINGLIST: Trafassi, "Ma Akoeba" [New]
CONCERT subjects consist of the artist or event names separated by
comma's, followed by a hierarchy of locations in between square
brackets.
Examples: "CONCERT: Michael Jackson [New York, USA]
"CONCERT: Michael Jackson, Nirvana [World]
"CONCERT: Michael Jackson [Canada + USA]
"CONCERT: Parkpop Festival [The Hague, Netherlands]
DISCOGRAPHY subjects consist of the name of the artist, nothing else.
Example: "DISCOGRAPHY: The Beatles"
CHART subjects are free format, but please try to mention (a) the name
of the chart, and (b) the period to which the chart applies.
Example: "CHART: Zimbabwe Top 40 Albums, 09/09/93"
FAQ, INFO and NEWS subjects are also free format. Plese try to keep the
text after the keyword short, yet informative.
--- Anything else?
Not really.
I'm looking forward to seeing your submissions fill up my mailbox...
--
Leo Breebaart -- Moderator rec.music.info & rec.music.reviews
+++ Requests for information do *not* belong in r.m.info! +++