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From: lfirrantello@BIX.com (Mick Brown c.o.o.a Moderator)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.announce
Subject: ** Problems with Submissions
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Date: 4 Aug 1996 09:35:11 GMT
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Reply-to: lfirrantello@BIX.com (Mick Brown c.o.o.a Moderator)
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I am receiving increasing number of complaints about articles which leave out
important information. I am also currently receiving about 50% of the
submissions with invalid email addresses somewhere in their headers.

1) User Groups
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a) the subject line should contain something like the following:
UG: June 17 meeting, topic, city and state or city and country

This is information important to potential visitors and new members and
should be placed where everyone who might be interested can see it. It is
something that is a PITA for me to find, cut and paste out of the bodies of
the article.

b) Users' groups with long established web sites are often not supplying
the URLs for their sites or BBSes. This information can help new or
prospective members find out more about your group, obtain street maps,
contact numbers or other information useful in their process of
determining whether to visit or join your group.

c) User's groups are not supplying the next three or four meeting dates,
nor the usual meeting day, so that potential visitors or members can
make future plans to visit when they cannot make the announced meeting.

2) SOFTWARE, FREEWARE, VENDOR
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a) Subject lines are missing keywords. The keywords help readers determine
whether they want to download an article or not, by indicating a general
category the announcement falls into.

b) Subject lines are often just a product name. While this is sufficient to
inform someone who already has read about your product, it usually is
insufficient for new readers or those not yet customers. Please indicate
a general product category like:

VENDOR: XYZ releases PM xyz 1.2 (file management utility suite)
GAME: Monster Mash v 2.4 a fast action/strategy I'net game.

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The biggest complaint I get is that the post doesn't contain a product
description. While you may be familiar with your product--it may even be
relatively famous with many positive reviews in the computer press, there
are going to be many who read this newsgroup who don't know your product.

Please include brief descriptions of what your product does and what other
software or hardware is necessary to use it.

Technical details and brief descriptions of enhancements from previous
versions are fine, but please supply a brief overview for the non-technical
reader or the novice. Doing this may help a reader see a need your product
fulfills and net you a customer you'd never have otherwise.

3) EMAIL ADDRESS PROBLEMS
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I am currently receiving about 50% of submissions with illegal or bouncing
email addresses somewhere in the headers. I can often figure out eventually
how to contact the poster, but *NOT* always. If I cannot send you a email
reply your submission is rejected without notice.

a) Please ensure that your email address is correctly set in your
news reader before submitting a post to comp.os.os2.announce. I cannot
offer advice on how to do this, because there are too many different
news readers.

b) Please include a line at the top of the body of your message with the
following:

submitted by: your name (userid@domain.com) --or--
submitted by: userid@domain.com (Your Name)

for example, in my case:

submitted by: lfirrantello@bix.com (Mick Brown)

c) For some reason, people seem to be configuring their email addresses in
their mail clients properly much more often than they do in their
news readers. I still suggest adding the line in 3) b) above to the top
of your email submissions.

It seems that if your news reader's email address setting is misconfigured,
your news server is very likely to mangle it further.
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-- To submit to c.o.os2.announce: POST (or email os2_ann_req@bix.com)
-- For comments to the moderator: email lfirrantello@bix.com.
- for posting guidelines see: http://www.bix.com/pub/os2ann/pindex.htm