3 Submitting a News item

news is a quick and effective way of your information reaching the whole UK astronomical community as it is available at all Starlink sites.

Items should be submitted via your Site Manager who will forward it on to the Starlink Project team for dissemination. news items should usually appear within 24 hours at all sites.

news items follow a simple format and you are asked to ensure that your submitted items conform to this standard:

• Line One should contain a numeral “1” followed by a space and then the title of the news item.
• Line Two should contain a right-justified expiry statement, giving the expiry date for the item, of the form: Expires: date. The right-justification should use spaces, not <TAB> characters.
• The body of the text should not exceed column 75 — the news items are usually posted on Usenet.
• The numeral “1” signifies the topic title and should not appear in column one of the text apart from the first line.
• Subtopics should commence with a numeral “2” in column one followed by a title.
• Only two levels of news are readable by the news program.

3.1 Example news item