Top Document: comp.software.testing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: 3. What is this newsgroup about? Next Document: 5. Beta testing See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Did I mention that you should read the FAQs in news.announce.newusers if you haven't done so lately? Also, you can reduce the chances of embarrassing yourself by reading comp.software.testing for a while before posting. At the very least, scan all the articles in the group currently on your server to make sure your question hasn't already been asked and answered. Please help the newsgroup's participants find articles in the categories they're interested in. If your posting falls into the categories below, please put the three-letter tag at the beginning of your subject line. This will also increase the likelihood that those wanting to read your post will find it. For example, your subject line might read - "Subject: ADV: Widget Tester 6.0 released". JOB: Help wanted ads ANN: Announcements for new books, publications CFP: Call for papers or participants CNF: Conference announcements ADV: Other advertisements and commercial product announcements CV: Curriculum Vitae, looking for a job Job postings that are cross-posted to the various job-related newsgroups should not be posted to comp.software.testing, since the subject conventions for those groups do not allow them to be easily identified as job postings, and the misc.jobs FAQ (<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/jobs/welcome-faq>) specifies that job postings should not be cross-posted between the job-related newsgroups and non job-related newsgroups. Some recruiters refuse to follow the job posting policy. If you don't want to read job postings, consider using a kill file to systematically kill articles from these recruiters. Many questions about a particular test tool only interest those readers who use that tool. Please make sure to put the name of the test tool in the subject line so readers can select the articles they read by looking at the subject. In general, please use a descriptive subject line. If you post an article and later decide you shouldn't have posted it, please cancel it. It is much better to correct the problem than to send *another* post to apologize for the first one. Situations where this would be appropriate include posting empty articles, multiple copies of the same article, and any goof where you'd like to correct something you posted shortly after it was sent. Look in your newsreader documentation for help with cancelling an article; some also have a "supercede" feature which makes it easy to correct a posting. While the cancel feature has been common for quite some time, some newer newsreaders unfortunately do not offer it. If this is the case, complain to the author, and consider using a more reasonable newsreader. Here's a manual method to cancel an article - start to follow up to the errant posting. Change the subject to "cmsg cancel <message-id>", where message-id is taken from the References: header or the attribution. The body of the message is not important. Post it, and the news system should interpret it as a cancel request rather than a real posting. You can only do this for an article you posted yourself. People have also expressed concern about postings that are totally off-topic. These postings are typically "spam" postings that go to most of the thousands of newsgroups that exist. There is very little that an unmoderated group can do proactively to prevent them. See news.admin.net-abuse.usenet and <http://www.tezcat.com/~gbyshenk/ive.been.spammed.html> for more information. Please don't post test messages to comp.software.testing. This group is for discussing software testing, not for testing your news software. If you want several automatic confirmations that your post worked, post a test message to misc.test. There are other test groups at various levels of the news hierarchy that all end in ".test". It's best to try a local one first. User Contributions:Top Document: comp.software.testing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: 3. What is this newsgroup about? Next Document: 5. Beta testing Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: raymond.rivest@crim.ca (Raymond Rivest)
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