rec.music.promotional Posting Guidelines Copyright (c) 2002-3, Brian Edmonds $Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2003/03/24 17:54:28 $ The latest version of this document can be found at * http://www.gweep.ca/~robomod/rec.music.promotional/ * post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt" Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group moderator at rec-music-promotional-moderator@gweep.ca. _________________________________________________________________ Contents * Introduction * Charter + Subject Tags + Miscellaneous Policies * How To Submit a Post _________________________________________________________________ Introduction The rec.music.promotional newsgroup was created on December 7, 1994, originally moderated by David A. Pearlman. The group lapsed into inactivity by January of 1996 and efforts to contact the moderator all failed. In 2002 the moderation authority for the group was passed to Brian Edmonds, who is currently sole moderator. Since its creation a number of control messages have been sent which at some sites appear to have erroneously changed the status of the group to unmoderated. If this is the case at your site, you should bring it to the attention of your news admin, as any postings you make to a moderated group which is not properly recognized as such at your site will be silently discarded at any site where the group is correctly carried as moderated. _________________________________________________________________ Charter From the original creation message as found at ftp.isc.org: A new newsgroup, named rec.music.promotional, is proposed. The purpose of this newsgroup would be to field and repost information from record labels (and also from other on-line commercial music-related enterprises; e.g. new release lists from import distributors). To avoid the group becoming a dumping ground for advertising, it would be moderated. The moderator would evaluate submissions and limit postings to those with significant information content. The moderator would also contact record labels to inform them of the existence of this group and would actively solicit submissions of appropriate material from these labels. Submissions would be welcomed from both large and independent labels. The moderator would also be responsible for providing a "random notes"-like journal that would combine minor information tidbits that would not merit separate postings into a single posting. Subject Tags The group originally used a two letter tagging system to identify posts. At this time I am suspending the use of those tags, which were cryptic and of questionable utility. Miscellaneous Policies The moderator and the moderation software will also enforce the following policies: * Postings must be in plain text. In particular no HTML or mixed text and HTML posts will be allowed. Postings in languages other than English will be accepted, but must include an English translation. * Postings must be formatted within 80 characters in width (limiting your lines to 72 characters is recommended), and also must not exhibit the long/short/long/short/etc misformatting that some posting agents can produce when misconfigured. * No binary postings of any sort will be accepted. Exceptions will be made for cryptographic signatures and such. S/MIME signatures are usually far too bulky and will probably not be accepted. * Postings must have a meaningful subject header. * Crossposting to more than three newsgroups will not be allowed except under special circumstances. Contact the moderator if you feel you need to crosspost to rec.music.promotional and more than two other groups. * Followups will be directed to rec.music.misc unless otherwise specified. Followups may be to no more than two newsgroups, and may not include rec.music.promotional. * Postings consisting of no or little more than a URL will not be accepted. Please include at least a short paragraph of text describing the site. All posts will first pass through a software agent which will either immediately reject the post and return it with a note explaining the reason for rejection, or will return an acknowledgement of receipt to the poster's email address. Moderation after that point is done manually and will vary in the time required. All postings which are not accepted will be returned to the posting address with an explanation of the reason for rejection. Posting with a non-replyable address is strongly discouraged. If you feel you must post with such an address, please make sure you are not using one in a valid mail domain; appending .invalid to the address is the recommended way to ensure this. The current moderator of rec.music.promotional is also the moderator of rec.music.info and rec.music.reviews, and any posts submitted separately to more than one of these groups will be deemed to be spam, and rejected as such. _________________________________________________________________ How To Submit a Post At a correctly configured site you should simply be able to post to rec.music.promotional and everything will be managed for you behind the scenes. If you find this does not work for you, you can submit directly to the submission agent by mailing your posting to rec-music-promotional@gweep.ca. Please try the newsgroup first, and be sure to bring any problems to the attention of your local news administrator so that they can be dealt with. _________________________________________________________________ Brian Edmonds $Date: 2003/03/24 17:54:28 $