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How do I submit a mini-guide or a tutorial? I cannot find an Upload button

#1 tos226

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:07 PM

I'm trying to submit a tutorial or mini-guide .DOC or .HTM file as required by the Tutorial guidelines. I can't find any Upload button. Please help, thank you :thumbsup:

#2 Mysterysgames

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:12 PM

Are you sure that you have read the instructions properly?
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic138.html#guide

First you should send an email to see if a tutorial is from interest. If it is, then you are supposed to zip up the tutorial and send it by email.

#3 tos226

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:29 PM

Ouch! I did read the formatting section and followed that to the letter. I didn't absorb the submission part. Thanks a lot :thumbsup:

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:43 PM

Hehe, I didn't slap you :thumbsup:

(I mean because of your OUCH)

No problem :flowers:

At least you won't have to re-write the tutorial to fit the formal requirements, which is certainly a good thing :trumpet:

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 09:27 PM

My submission failed. Just got this from my ISP (verizon) and the google reference seems irrelevant anyway.

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Reporting-MTA: dns;vms173015.mailsrvcs.net (tcp-daemon)

Original-recipient: rfc822;submit-tutorials@bleepingcomputer.com
Final-recipient: rfc822;submit-tutorials@bleepingcomputer.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1 (Remote SMTP server has rejected address)
Remote-MTA: dns;aspmx.l.google.com (TCP|206.46.173.15|62272|209.85.210.31|25)
(mx.google.com ESMTP 39si9938064yxe.81)
Diagnostic code: smtp;550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try the recipient's email address for typos or spaces. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 39si9938
Remote system: dns;aspmx.l.google.com (TCP|206.46.173.15|62272|209.85.210.31|25) (mx.google.com ESMTP 39si9938064yxe.81)

This post has been edited by tos226: 10 August 2009 - 09:35 PM

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 07:39 AM

Everything you need is right here:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum92.html

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#7 tos226

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 09:19 AM

Grinler,
I don't see what I am looking for in that section :thumbsup:

I used submit-tutorials@bleepingcomputer.com for submitting. That address is in the guide to tutorials.
But the mail is not getting through. I tried again today - here's the snippet I get from ISP, practically identical to what I quoted yesterday:

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Recipient address: submit-tutorials@bleepingcomputer.com
Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address

#8 Grinler

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 09:26 AM

We discussed this though and I thought you were going to submit it as a mini guide.

#9 tos226

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 09:36 AM

No problem with mini-guide.
It's just I can't find instructions how, meaning where to, submit a mini-guide. And the mail address for tutorials is not working.

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 04:00 PM

The link Grinler provided in post #6 is to the Mini-guides forum. Navigate to the appropriate sub-forum for your mini-guide and create a new topic. Post your mini-guide in the message area. Preview it to make sure it's okay before hitting the Make New Post button. Once you hit that button, you won't see the topic until it's officially approved - similar to the speak-easy in that fashion.

Edit: This topic: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic39948.html provides basic instructions for creating and submitting a mini-guide

This topic: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic39943.html contains the guide template.

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This post has been edited by Orange Blossom: 11 August 2009 - 04:04 PM

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