This is the same as the hardcopy deadline. Questions about the submission process may be sent to wdag97-help@mpi-sb.mpg.de.
The electronic submission of papers is made possible by some experimental software being developed by Sam Rebelsky (samr@cs.dartmouth.edu) and SIGACT's Electronic Publishing Board. Many of you have used a variant of this server for past conferences (FOCS, PODC, SODA, STOC, WDAG, etc). Because of the experimental nature of the software, because email can be at times unreliable, and because "good" postscript files can fail to print on "good" postscript printers, the program committee cannot assume responsiblity for technical problems, although we will do our best to make sure that no such problems occur. For this reason we request that you submit your paper as early as possible.
In addition, please keep in mind the following:
All commands must be placed in the subject line of the message.
Please note:
The basic procedure to submit your paper by email involves two steps:
Please be patient and wait at least several hours for the acknowledgement of your last request before repeating any action with the server (or sending mail to wdag97-help@mpi-sb.mpg.de). Network delays can be significant at times. Email is rather reliable and will try delivery for up to 5 days before giving up. This is yet another good reason why you should not wait until the last minute for registering and submitting.
Since electronic submissions have no cover letter, please put information that would normally be in a cover letter on the first page of your paper. In particular, the call for papers requests that the first page of each paper must include the title of the paper and the contact author's name, address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address, if available.
After you have submitted your paper, you can revise your paper by sending a "revise <key>" command to the server, or you can withdraw your paper by sending a "withdraw <key>" command.
It is a good idea to test early in advance the printability of the postscript your text formatter is generating by sending a "test print" command to the server containing the postscript file in the message body. You will receive an acknowledgement containing the result of the test. (This is the same quick check for postscript errors performed when you submit your paper with the submit command.)
At any time, you can ask the server for help by sending a "help" command, and you can ask the server for the current status of your paper in the database (i.e., registered, submitted, revised, withdrawn; not its reviewing status) by sending a "status <key>" command.
It is possible to practice submitting a paper before doing the real submission. First you send a "test register" command to the server and wait for it to acknowledge the test registration and provide you with a test-key; then you send a "submit <test-key>" command containing the test postscript file.
See the section on
Server Commands
for a detailed description the commands available.
If for some reason you need some extra help with email submission,
please send mail to
wdag97-help@mpi-sb.mpg.de
.
Case is not significant in commands to the server. The commands available are: register, submit, revise, withdraw, status, test register, test print, help.
Inform the server that you plan to submit a paper electronically. The body of the message should be
authors: <list of authors separated by "and"> title: <title of paper> contact: <email address of contact author>Continuation lines for the "authors" and "title" fields, if needed, should start with a blank.
The server will return a name to use to refer to your submission (called the key in the definitions below).
Example registration: % mail wdag97@wdag.mpi-sb.mpg.de Subject: register authors: Joan Baez and Bob Dylan title: How many messages must a man send out contact: bob@cs.university.edu ^D Example response from the server: From: wdag97@james1.mpi-sb.mpg.de To: bob@cs.university.edu Subject: WDAG97: Submission registered Use the key 'bob-1234.ps' for your submission to WDAG97 with author(s): Joan Baez and Bob Dylan title: How many messages must a man send out contact: bob@cs.university.edu
Submit a paper using the filename returned in the registration acknowledgement. The body of the message should be the postscript file. The server will acknowledge the submission. The acknowledgment will include an MD5-generated receipt for the submission, as well as basic information on the file (size, checksum, first and last ten lines of the file) so that you can verify that it arrived "safely".
Example submission: % mail wdag97@wdag.mpi-sb.mpg.de Subject: submit bob-1234.ps ~r wdag-paper.ps ^D Example response from the server: From: wdag97@james1.mpi-sb.mpg.de To: bob@cs.university.edu Subject: WDAG97: Submission received Your PostScript file does not seem to generate any syntactic errors. Submission 'bob-1234.ps' received. The receipt for the submission is 'a44c5923d6aa7c1072253ce22994b948 -'. FILE INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------------- Information generated on Fri Apr 4 21:29:48 MET 1997. Your file is 89365 bytes long. Its checksum is 27230. FIRST TEN LINES ----------------------------------------------------------------- ... LAST TEN LINES ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...
Revise a previously submitted paper. The body of the message should be the postscript file. The server will confirm this revision with the contact person for the paper. The revision must be received before the submission deadline (April 26, 1997).
Example revision: % mail wdag97@wdag.mpi-sb.mpg.de Subject: revise bob-1234.ps ~r wdag-paper-rev.ps ^D Example response from the server: From: wdag97@james1.mpi-sb.mpg.de To: bob@cs.university.edu Subject: WDAG97: Revision Your submission with key 'bob-1234.ps' was revised at the request of bob@cs.university.edu. Please send mail as soon as possible to <wdag97-help@mpi-sb.mpg.de> if this is in error. Your PostScript file does not seem to generate any syntactic errors. The receipt for the submission is '4618a05e30f1003e5f65b3325d34dc05 -'. FILE INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------------- Information generated on Fri Apr 11 11:09:45 MET 1997. Your file is 85385 bytes long. Its checksum is 29230. FIRST TEN LINES ----------------------------------------------------------------- ... LAST TEN LINES ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...
Withdraw a previously submitted paper. The server will confirm this withdrawal with the contact person for the paper.
Example withdrawal: % mail wdag97@wdag.mpi-sb.mpg.de Subject: withdraw bob-1234.ps ^D Example response from the server: From: wdag97@james1.mpi-sb.mpg.de To: bob@cs.university.edu Subject: WDAG97: Submission Withdrawn Your submission with key 'bob-1234.ps' was withdrawn at the request of bob@cs.university.edu. Please send mail as soon as possible to <wdag97-help@mpi-sb.mpg.de> if this is in error.
Check on the status of a submitted file. This status refers only to its existence in the database and its printability, not to its status in the refereeing process.
Example status check: % mail wdag97@wdag.mpi-sb.mpg.de Subject: status bob-1234.ps ^D Example response from the server: From: wdag97@james1.mpi-sb.mpg.de To: bob@cs.university.edu Subject: WDAG97: Database status information The following is our database entry for 'bob-1234.ps' author(s): Joan Baez and Bob Dylan title: How many messages must a man send out contact: bob@cs.university.edu status: revised Your PostScript file does not seem to generate any syntactic errors. The receipt for the submission is '4618a05e30f1003e5f65b3325d34dc05 -'. FILE INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------------- Information generated on Fri Apr 11 11:09:45 MET 1997. Your file is 85385 bytes long. Its checksum is 29230. FIRST TEN LINES ----------------------------------------------------------------- ... LAST TEN LINES ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...
Identical to the register command, except that the server returns a special key to use for testing. The purpose of this command is to let you experiment with the submission process before submitting your paper for real.
Example test registration: % mail wdag97@wdag.mpi-sb.mpg.de Subject: test register authors: Joan Baez and Bob Dylan title: How many messages must a man send out contact: bob@cs.university.edu ^D Example response from the server: From: wdag97@james1.mpi-sb.mpg.de To: bob@cs.university.edu Subject: WDAG97: Test submission registered Use the key 'test-bob-1234.ps' for your sample submission to WDAG97 with author(s): Joan Baez and Bob Dylan title: How many messages must a man send out contact: bob@cs.university.edu
Test printing of the postscript file contained in the body of the message. The server will return a message regarding the success or failure of the printing process.
Example test printing: % mail wdag97@wdag.mpi-sb.mpg.de Subject: test print ~r wdag-paper.ps ^D Example response from the server: From: wdag97@james1.mpi-sb.mpg.de To: bob@cs.university.edu Subject: WDAG97: Printing test Your PostScript file does not seem to generate any syntactic errors. FILE INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------------- Information generated on Fri Apr 15 16:05:40 MET 1997. Your file is 75485 bytes long. Its checksum is 29230. FIRST TEN LINES ----------------------------------------------------------------- ... LAST TEN LINES ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...
Request help on the electronic submission process. You will receive the present document in text format (or a slight variant) in response.
Example request for help: % mail wdag97@wdag.mpi-sb.mpg.de Subject: help ^D