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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX Phonelist Program.
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.233153.21657@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 91 23:31:53 GMT
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In article <1991Feb10.143323.1817@arnor.uucp>, dgreen@arnor writes:
>Apparently my name appeared in a summary of
>TeX software posted to this newsgroup.

Perhaps I should take this opportunity to clarify how information gets
included in the Supplementary TeX Information document.

If you post an article saying `foo.sty is now available for anonymous ftp
from bar.baz.fish', then that information will go into the Supplement and
not your address.

If you post source code but say somewhere in the article `this style file
is also available for anonymous ftp from bar.baz.fish', then the ftp
information goes into the Supplement and not your address.

If you post source code that you yourself wrote and don't say where it can
be obtained via ftp, I assume that it is not available via ftp and will
list your email address in the supplement.  (On the theory that the only
way to get it is through you.)

Moral of the story:  If you've written something useful, upload it
somewhere so that everybody can access it.