Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: wp2latex (1 of 4) Message-ID: <0M95QR2@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 17 Aug 90 15:33:31 GMT References: <-335ZE6@xds13.ferranti.com> <6443@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <-Z45SQ2@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <1990Aug14.003446.19241@NCoast.ORG> <1990Aug16.151010.17925@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu> Reply-To: peter@hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 29 In article <1990Aug16.151010.17925@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu> lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (a.k.a. Chri) writes: > I can't take this any more. Do you what one has to go through to post > stuff to the net? (Actually, you probably do.) Yep. I moderated a sources group for a while. > Let me tell you, it ain't fun, it ain't intuitive, and it ain't easy. > ...before you brought it up lately, I had > *never* heard of this archive-header. And I am not a "casual user." OK, I'll start a FAQ for alt.sources. Send suggestions for topics to peter@hackercorp.com. I don't have internet access, so I'll have to take people's word on what archive sites exist and where the latest shar can be gotten. Let's see, what should be in here: What alt.sources is for... What alt.sources.d is for... What alt.sources.index is for... What other periodic postings to alt.sources are... Where to get uuencode/uudecode/cshar/etc... How big to make chunks of source code... How a posting should be formatted... What headers should be there... This last is more than just "Archive-name:", if you're posting source people are more likely to see it if it isn't titled "Re: problems with fucalc 2.3". What else? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com (currently not working) peter@hackercorp.com