Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:16697 news.admin:2388 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sunybcs!boulder!dyker From: dyker@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Barbara Dyker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,news.admin Subject: Re: some (should-be) ground-rules for submissions to comp.binaries.* Message-ID: <6402@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Date: 1 Jun 88 00:31:18 GMT References: <2689@utastro.UUCP> <699@lakesys.UUCP> <307@spt.entity.com> <8297@dhw68k.cts.com> Sender: news@sigi.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: dyker@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Barbara Dyker) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 26 In article <8297@dhw68k.cts.com> bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long) writes: >In article <699@lakesys.UUCP> macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) suggests >standardizing using StuffIt for packing/compression. > >What matters most (to me) for submitting things to comp.{binaries,sources}.mac >is that > [long list of good guidlines deleted] What would also take some load off the net would be a REGULAR posting in comp.binaries.* of a list of submittal guidlines AND the procedures AND software required to unpack/hex the posting!!! The net is all too often cluttered with requests for BinHex, StuffIt, PackIt... and hasty articles about not being able to unbinhex 4.0 with 5.0, and "what's a .pit file?" I did my stuggling as a newbie - let's get some info out for those that are new to the net so that it works for all of us. Or shall we ignore newbies like someone suggested we ignore non-programmers?? Barb Dyker CSNET: dyker@boulder.Colorado.EDU UUNET: ...rutgers!ncar!dinl!tosgcla!dyker "Do what you will with my employer, but leave me alone."