From: rec-music-info@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: REC.MUSIC.INFO: Submission Guidelines for rec.music.info
Followup-To: rec.music.misc
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: recmusic@galaxy
Supersedes: <rec-music-info-guidelines_714755545@ph.tn.tudelft.nl>
Reply-To: rec-music-info@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:06:12 GMT
Expires: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:05:54 GMT

Archive-name: rec-music-info/guidelines
Last-modified: 1992/09/01 13:57:18
Version: 1.8


*** rec.music.info - Submission Guidelines and Etiquette ***


Two introductory articles about rec.music.info are posted to this group and
to news.answers each month. 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.


 --- 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 @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl

Mailing me directly is probably (a wee bit) faster, but using the
transparency offered by the newsreading software is probably more
convenient.


 --- How soon will I see my article appear?

It depends on how busy I am. Your article reaches me as mail, I have to
read it first, possibly edit it, give it the stamp of approval, and finally
send it on to the group.

I try to check and process the rec-music-info mailbox at least twice a day.
Since my site is in the Netherlands, the turnaround time between submitting
something from, say, the USA and seeing it appear in rec.music.info on your
site might be a bit longer than with groups moderated from within States.


 --- Should my article be in a specific format?

No. If it is not totally illegible, I will accept it, and if it does not
have a correct subject-line I will correct it -- that's what a moderator is
for.

However.

You could do me a big favour by making sure your article confirms to these
simple requirements:

[1] A good, descriptive Subject line, with the appropriate keyword already
included (see the first article for the set of keywords). See also the
next section.

[2] Include some background information to your article. One paragraph or
even one sentence can be enough. Just don't forget that r.m.info is read by
people who do not know all the context that your usual audience over in
rec.music.whatever takes for granted.

[3] Always mention what source you got the information from.

[4] Don't forget to include a Followup-To header, at least if you don't
want further discussion to automatically be forwarded to rec.music.misc,
which is the default.

As I said: if your article is appropriate I will post it even if you don't
follow these guidelines, but then don't blame me for not processing it
immediately. '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.


 --- Anything else about Subject lines?

Yes. If you are submitting a CONCERT article, please put the geographic
location of those concerts in square brackets at the end of the Subject,
like so:
    	    CONCERT: Trafassi Tour Dates [UK + Japan]

If you are submitting a chart, please include the period the chart is
valid for, e.g:

    	    CHART: Zimbabwe Top 40, 24/08/92
    	

 --- What about crossposting?

If you send something to rec.music.info, just name any group you'd like to
crosspost to in the Newsgroups field. Then, when I approve the article for
rec.music.info it will get automatically crossposted to any other groups
mentioned.

Ideally, everyone subscribing to a rec.music group will also read
rec.music.info, so crossposting would be unnecessary and redundant.

On the other hand: crossposts do not take up extra space; modern
newsreaders can be configured to show you crossposted articles only once
anyway; not everybody reads rec.music.info; and rec.music.info was never
meant to reduce the volume of the regular newsgroups.

You decide.


 --- And Follow-ups?

If the only newsgroup you have specified is rec.music.info, then the
Followup-To: field will always be set to rec.music.misc. If you do not
want this, you must supply a Followup-To line of your own, and I will
honor that one.

If you specify newsgroups to crosspost to, then the Followup-To field
will be set to include all the crossposted groups, excepting rec.music.info
itself. Again, if you do not wish this behaviour, supply your own 
Followup-To line.


 --- Other Header lines?

This is where things get a bit technical. For my moderation purposes I use
a shell script to process the submissions I get. This shell script
automatically extracts the following set of 'standard' header lines (if
present): From, Subject, Newsgroups, Summary, Keywords, Organization, 
Reply-To, and Followup-To.

All other header lines are discarded. If you have any special header lines
that you want included in your article as it will appear in rec.music.info,
you can do this by separating them from the other header lines in your
article by one blank line. That way, they are regarded by my script as part
of the message instead of the headers, and will be passed along.

If you have no such special wishes, or if you did not quite follow the
above two paragraphs, you can forget about them completely; you don't have
to bother with *any* of the header lines. Just send me your submission.


 --- Why have I received no reply from you?

I never reject anything in silence, and I make a point of it to answer
all my mail. However, e-mail can and does get lost, every now and again.

So, if you send me something, and you don't see it appear it rec.music.info, 
and you still have not heard from me in reply after say, one week, you can
be pretty sure that either your mail never reached me, or that my asnwer
has never reached you. In that case, please try again.

-- 
Leo Breebaart -- Moderator rec.music.info
Submissions & other mail to: rec-music-info @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl
!!! Requests for information do *not* belong in r.m.info! !!!
Newsgroups: rec.music.info