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FidoNews Article Submission 

FidoNews, founded in early 1984, is the newsletter of the FidoNet computer
network, for both its Sysops and users.  It is passed to its readers
electronically via the FidoNet and other computer networks and to non-network
readers as well as to the InterNet. Fidonews welcomes articles, editorials, and
features of interest to the Fidonet Community.  To have your article included
in Fidonews, simply send it via netmail to 1:124/25 or via internet email to
jjustvig @ vintagebbsing . com.

In the past, this article submission document outlined the many technical
details involved in processing Fidonews articles.  The assumption in the past
seems to have been that articles would be automatically processed from the
editor's inbound mail directly into Fidonews.  However, the current editor does
no automatic inbound processing; rather, each article is examined before
publication and technical details are handled by the editor rather than imposed
on the person submitting the article.  It works better that way - it means that
you are free to just concentrate on what you want to say.

It's perfectly acceptable to simply write your article the same way you would
write netmail or email.  Don't worry about the stuff added by software along
the way... I edit that out anyway.  All I need at this end is a text message
which I can read with standard software and which I can import into a standard
text editor to format for the Fidonews software.  Alternatively, you can file
attach an ASCII text copy of your article.

Here are some guidelines you can use to help me make it easier to format your
article for Fidonews:

1.  Use standard ASCII text.  Most word processor formats can't be used by the
Fidonews software.  In addition, the Fidonews software won't accept most ASCII
control characters nor any characters above ASCII 127 (this, unfortunately,
includes all those neat box drawing
characters).

2.  Start your lines at the left of your screen when typing.  The software puts
in a left margin automatically, and I have to manually remove any left margin
appearing in your document.

3.  Keep your line length to under 70 columns for tables or charts (or if you
include an ASCII illustration).  Regular paragraphs exceeding this 70 column
limit can be reformatted during the editing process, but tables and charts are
normally distorted beyond recognition by a simple reformatting.

4.  Separate paragraphs with a blank line.  This is how my text editor
recognizes paragraph endings, so I have to add blank lines manually if you
don't.

5.  Title your article as you'd like to see it in the Table of Contents.  If
you don't, I'll make up a title for you, but I'd rather have the article appear
as you wish.

6.  Include your name and node number (or internet address) under the title. 
I'll grab it from your message, if necessary... but, again, I'd rather have the
article appear as you wish.

7.  Check your own spelling and wording.  Though I feel free to reformat your
article so it conforms to technical requirements, I generally leave the wording
(and spelling) alone as I don't want to distort what you have to say.

8.  Send your article before Sunday in order to see it in that Monday's
edition.  Normally I put the newsletter together Sunday Evening and send it
out... and I normally check email and netmail before I finalize the edition. 
So if I get your article before Sunday evening, I'll include it... but send it
by Saturday to be safe :)

9.  If you're not sure whether you should write or send in your article, I
would encourage you to send it anyway.  Chances are, if you write of something
of interest to yourself, it'll be of interest to others.  Besides, Fidonews is
a better publication when it's written by a variety of people :)

Originally written by:
                                        Douglas C. Myers
                                        Fidonews Editor

                                        Updated by Jon Justvig, 1:1/1
                                                                1:124/25
                                                                jjustvig @
vintagebbsing . com

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