HOW TO SUBMIT AN ENTRY FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR FIRM

Here is now to add or replace an entry on the list.

Create a separate text file called something like my_firm.txt For a revised listing it should be called my_firm01.txt. The finished document is called an entry listing file.

The entry listing file consists of one or more lines in the following format:

tag:value

The following values are permitted for tags:

TAG	INTERPRETATION
contact	Name of a live person to contact (for larger firms "Sales Dept" may be appropriate). A mailto:youremailaddress hyperlink is supplied on the listing page. For this reason, both the contact and email (see below) fields are MANDATORY.
firm	The name of your consultancy, perhaps just your own name. If you have also supplied the website tag (see below), then the directory displays the website as a hyperlink on your firm's name.
description	Free-form description of your firm, which is allowed to contain reasonable HTML tags. This tag is allowed to occur multiple times in which case all the values are concatenated with a single space between lines
phone	Where people can contact you by telephone. If there are restrictions on when you accept calls, you can put a brief indication here (e.g. evenings), or put this information in the description area. If you are unreachable by phone, leave out this field.
fax	Your fax number. If you don't have a fax number, then please omit this item altogether. Do not insert N/A or the like.
email	THIS ENTRY IS MANDATORY Where you can be reached by email.
website	The website URL is not shown directly in the listing, but is provided as a hyperlink to the firm's name (See above).
final line	The final line should consist of at least 5 hyphens. e.g. -----------------------

Here is a sample entry

firm:Name of your firm
website:http://something
phone:your phone number
fax:your fax number
description:What services your firm provides.
description:There can be multiple description lines
description:Each line, including additional description lines,
description:requires a tag.
description:Long lines may be unexpectedly mangled by mail clients.
contact:The name of a particular person to contact
email:info@yourfirm.bc.ca
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New and revised listings follow the same procedure
Revised entries are shown first
When your document is ready, please click on vanlug_consultants@rillanon.org and attach (do not include) the file you created earlier.
The list is open to all types of consulting firm from the largest to 1-person operations.
Although this is a Linux-oriented list, there is plenty of space to mention your other talents, whether they be Solaris administration or Microsoft Visual C++ programming.