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*** Important Reminders: cbc Mini FAQ *** updated 17 September 2005

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Thanks for reading comp.binaries.cbm, the source of great, pre-tested 8-bit
Commodore freeware since 1993.

In between FAQ appearances, we get several major questions or several major
issues reappear. Here they are:

1. The FAQ is available at

   http://www.floodgap.com/comp.binaries.cbm/

   It is also regularly posted to comp.answers, news.answers and comp.sys.cbm
   on even-numbered months, pending approval of the FAQ by the *.answers team.

2. Your posts are PRE-FILTERED before a moderator even sees them, due to the
   large amount of newsgroup spam. To successfully submit a formal submission,
   or a question through the request address, your post or E-mail:

      - MUST HAVE: either the words 'commodore' or 'comp.binaries.cbm',
        spelled correctly, in upper/lower case, in either your MESSAGE BODY,
        MESSAGE SUBJECT, or both. No other headers will qualify. Odds are
        your message contains these key terms already!

      - MUST NOT HAVE: newsgroups other than comp.binaries.cbm in the
        Newsgroups: header, if one exists. If you crosspost, it will be
        silently DELETED.

3. File sizes are approximate only.

4. PLEASE DO NOT POST WAREZ. The stuff you get from Arnold, unless explicitly
   labeled freeware, is warez. Your derivative work or patch (unless it does
   not include the original software) is also warez, technically. For charter
   reasons, we can't approve it.

As a corollary,

4a. DO NOT AUTOPOST OR MULTIPOST! Every single one of your posts is E-mailed
    to the moderators. Loading your 30GB .d64 collection into your post bot
    and blasting us at 5GB a post overloads our mail spools and is horribly
    rude. We *will* shut you down one way or another if you try this. Please
    be polite and don't.

5. If your post is not getting through, E-mail it. But ask first, because
   getting five copies of a 340K zip file is never entertaining. :-*
   Suggestions for fixing this on a more permanent level are in the FAQ.
   Remember to obey the restrictions of the filter in #2.

6. All posts must be in uucode format -- not yEnc. Most people don't know
   how to handle this format, and there are no native yEnc decoders on the
   64 anyway.

7. If you need to compress, zip and gz are *strongly* preferred to anything
   else.

Thanks for making comp.binaries.cbm a kinder, gentler, hexadecimal kind of
place. :-)

--
      Cameron Kaiser * ckaiser@floodgap.com * posting with a Commodore 128
              Floodgap Systems: http://www.floodgap.com/
                 personal page: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/

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