From: Tony Lezard Subject: () POSTING GUIDELINES: Rec.Games.Computer.Doom.Announce Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.doom.announce Followup-To: poster Organization: RGCD Support Team Approved: doom@mantis.co.uk Rec-games-computer-doom-announce-archive-name: pg-rgcda Posting-Frequency: monthly POSTING GUIDELINES FOR REC.GAMES.COMPUTER.DOOM.ANNOUNCE Last update: 24 January 1996. This is a moderated newsgroup. Group submission address: doom@mantis.co.uk Moderator contact address: doom-request@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard) Note that *most* news reading software automatically translates attempts to post to a moderated group into mail to the appropriate moderator. If that doesn't work for you, use the addresses above. These guidelines are not intended as a definitive ruleset but are just ways to increase the probability of a submission to the newsgroup being accepted. * Content guidelines Postings must be on the subject of Id software's recent and forthcoming action games. Doom and Doom II are obviously included; so are Heretic, Hexen, Quake and other games that use DOOM-like concepts and techniques | licensed from id Software. I generally won't accept postings solely about games that significantly pre-date Doom, or non-id games that look similar such as Descent, Dark Forces and Rise of the Triad, except to announce their release. The posting must be informative and of interest to the Doom-playing community at large. Acceptable subjects include FAQs and pointers to them, FTP site news (generally only from the site admins - I don't want 50 postings saying "cdrom is down!"), announcements of new utilities such as level editors, PWAD announcements and reviews (note: "review" means more than "it's a cool WAD" - there must be some exposition), tournament and BBS news and so on. Anything captured in the moderator's opinion by the essence of the first sentence of this paragraph. All articles from employees or representatives of Id software will be accepted. I don't think this conflicts with the previous paragraph. Questions are very unlikely to be approved. Also, DON'T POST REQUESTS | FOR DEATHMATCH PARTNERS. These are only of limited interest and there | are better ways of finding opponents (see the FAQ). | Repeat postings (except FAQs *sent by the moderator*) will generally be rejected. If you want to say the same thing twice you'll need to include a significant amount of new material which meets the Guidelines. The Newsgroups: line will be left as submitted unless I feel some newsgroups are inappropriate, or any other moderated newsgroups are specified (the news software handles this badly). The moderator will creatively set the Followup-To: line (if the poster has not already done so) if the article is crossposted to any unmoderated groups. Subject lines should also be informative. If they are, the moderator will leave them unaltered. * Style guidelines Keep (unquoted) line length under 79 characters. Articles that exceed this limit will be reformatted or bounced at the discretion of the moderator. Postings should be readable. This means that postings which are all in uppercase, or are full of spelling errors, or contain no paragraph breaks for example may be bounced with a request for resubmission. If the corrections required can be done quickly the moderator might apply them himself and approve the posting. Excessive quoting and lengthy signatures will be trimmed or removed. The moderator will always insert a note indicating when he has performed any editing of an article. * Other notes No acknowledgement will be given when an acceptable posting is received. If a posting is rejected the moderator will always try to bounce the posting back to the sender with a reason, with the exception of spam and other obvious time wasting. All submissions (even spam) whether accepted or not will be stored for a reasonable period of time and made available to anyone who expresses an interest. The archive for approved articles resides at ftp://ftp.mantis.co.uk/pub/doom/rec-articles/. I will probably not be providing a mail feed of postings to this group. I'll be too busy moderating to be running a mailing list at the same time. However, if someone else wants to, they're welcome to. -- == Tony Lezard == | Moderator, rec.games.computer.doom.announce tony@mantis.co.uk | http://www.mantis.co.uk/~tony/