Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Changes to Rules for posting to Usenet Message-ID: <3124@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 3 Feb 88 23:20:04 GMT Expires: 14 Mar 88 23:20:03 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 41 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <2823@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. New users may ignore this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** old/rules.n Fri Jan 1 15:40:36 1988 --- src/rules.n Wed Jan 13 18:37:26 1988 *************** *** 5,7 **** Original-from: mark@cbosgd.att.com (Mark Horton) ! [Most recent change: 10 December 1987 by chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)] --- 5,8 ---- Original-from: mark@cbosgd.att.com (Mark Horton) ! [Most recent change: 13 January 1988 by msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) & ! weemba@garnet.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew P Wiener)] *************** *** 130,131 **** --- 131,146 ---- :%s/^>//'s that are not being used as the citation + character. (In particular, it will damage the "References" line in the + article header.) + + In preparing an article, be aware that other people's machines are + not the same as yours. The following is a list of things to keep + in mind: + * Except for source, keep your lines under 80 characters. + * Most special control characters will not work for most readers. + * Pictures and diagrams should not use embedded tabs. + * Refer to articles by Message-ID, and never by article number. + * What you think is the previous article is unlikely to be so elsewhere. -- Gene Spafford Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf