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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
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- Archive-name: music/rec-music-info/guidelines
- Last-modified: 1993/12/08 14:46:56
- Version: 2.2
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-
- *** 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! +++
-