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How to Contribute a Document

Formatting the Document
  • Format:  HTML, PDF, RTF, DOC, or ASCII text file. We cannot use any proprietary file formats, fonts, or symbols - so, please include the fonts and symbols as graphics.

  • Language:  English. A translation capability will make an attempt to convey your views to a greater group. Suffice it to say that English is the most-used language across the most countries.

  • Paragraphs:  Separate paragraphs with a CR-LF. Please, no indents.

  • Fonts:  Use a sans-serif like Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, or Arial.

  • Font Styles:  Underlined, strong (bold), and emphasis (italics) accepted.

  • Font color:  Black text on white background.

  • Quotation marks:  Unless a whole sentence is double-quoted, end a sentence that ends with a single or double quotation marked word or phrase with the period following the closing quote.

  • Dates:  Give date written in the format of "dd-mmm-yyyy".

  • Titles:  Try to keep it less than 128 characters and if long, try to break it into a main title followed by a colon and a sub-title.

  • Section Titles:  Introductions and Sub-titles also ought to have names 128 characters or less.

  • Citations:  These are direct statements from individuals or other reference materials. Please mark citations at its end with a space followed by a bolded c1, c2, ... cN. These should all be listed in a section called "Citations" at the end of the text.

  • Annotations:  These are your comments on the use of a term, phrase, or view. Please mark annotations at its end of the word or phrase with a space followed by a bolded a1, a2, ... aN. These should all be listed in a section called "Annotations" at the end of the text.

  • Resources:  These are your suggested readings on the understanding of a term, phrase, or view. Please mark annotations at its end of the word or phrase with a space followed by a bolded r1, r2, ... rN. These should all be listed in a section called "Resources" at the end of the text.

  • Links:  Please have all these verified and typed out as an addition to the Citations, Annotations, and Graphics Credits sections.

  • Graphics:  Send graphics as numbered (g1, g2, ..., gN) attachments and mark their location within the text as "g1[,g2,..gN] to be inserted here". Sources of graphics should all be listed in a section called "Graphics Credits" at the end of the text. Format should be PNG, JPEG, or GIF.

  • Author(s):  The author will be "anonymous" or "humanity". A view is truly revolutionary if it's "owner" is an honoring that is came from one (of "everyone") back to them.

  • Minimum view qualification:  Must express or seek post-capital, post-state, post-ideology, post-religion, post-[de-]centralist views.

eMailing the Document
  • Destination Email Address:  Send the file to proletariat@global-samizdat.org.

  • Securing the Email:  We shall make a suggestion for and add instructions for file encryption/decryption.

  • Backup:  Send a copy of the email to yourself as backup.

Mailing the Document on CD or DVD Media

  • Destination Address:  We will acquire a secure Post Office Box soon.

  • Securing the Delivery:  Ground-ship through UPS, Fedex, DHL, or some other package-secure delivery service, and let us know when it is sent.

  • File Compression:  You may compress using gzip, pkzip, zip, winzip, compress, tar, gtar, or other cross-platform available tool.

  • File Encryption:  You may encrypt using open source TrueCrypt, or other encryption tools. You must let us know the encryption tool.

  • Backup:  Keep a backup copy of the file and/or CD.

FTPing the Document to our File Server

  • Destination Address:  We will set up a secure directory on Global-Samizdat.org soon.

  • Backup:  Keep a backup copy of the file on your system.

  • Transfer Verification:  You should notify (using the "notification of delivery feature in your mail tool) us that you are transfering a file.

Document Rights

  • Omni-Copyright and the site:  Copyright to original portions of all documents posted to this site is hereby granted to all persons.

  • Omni-Copyright and Contributions:  Your transmission of a document for posting to this site implicitly constitutes a grant of copyright, by you, for original contents of your contribution to all persons.

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