Some more info

At the main page, about mail submits

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 <ul class='navigation'>
        <li><a href='$HELP_URL$newitem'>Submitting new item</a>
        <li><a href='$HELP_URL$newhistory'>Discussion</a>
+       <li><a href='$HELP_URL$mailsubmit'>Mail submit</a>
 </ul>
 <h2>Information about ID types</h2>
 <ul class='navigation'>

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+Mail submit
+<p>
+PCI IDs can be submited and edited using email.
+There is a robot at address <a href='mailto:pci-ids@ucw.cz'>pci-ids@ucw.cz</a>, which accepts patches sent to it.
+Please use unified diffs (<tt>diff -u</tt>) against the current <a href='/static/pci.ids'>pci.ids</a> file (preferably the one just downloaded from this page, but the robot tries hard to recognize older versions as well).
+Avoid base64 encoding and mail agents converting tabs to spaces, breaking lines and so on.
+<p>
+If you do not have an <a href='$HELP_URL$account'>account</a> yet, one is created for your email address.
+You will get subscribed to notifications about all the items you changed (if you like to tweak the notifications, look at their <a href='$HELP_URL$notifications'>documentation</a>.
+<p>
+Please note, the robot understands only PCI IDs. Other types of IDs must be entered by the web interface.

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                <li><a href='/PD/'>PCI device classes</a>
        </ul>
        <p>You can download the PCI database in <a href='/static/pci.ids'>pci.ids</a> format or its compressed version (<a href='/static/pci.ids.gz'>gz</a>, <a href='/static/pci.ids.bz2'>bz2</a>). They are regenerated every 24 hours.
+
+       <p>The contents of the database and the generated files can be distributed
+under the terms of either the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php">GNU General Public License</a> (version 2 or later)
+or of the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php">3-clause BSD License.</a>
+
        <p>You may want to read <a href='/?action=help?help=index'>help</a> before you start using this site.
+<h2>How to submit new data</h2>
+
+<p>If you have any device not listed in our database, we'll be glad to hear
+about it and add it to our database.
+
+<p><b>New entries</b> are welcome, but please submit only accurate information
+&ndash; descriptions like "unknown modem device" are only of a little use to
+anybody. Real chip names and numbers are preferred over marketing names,
+in case you know both, please enclose the marketing name in square brackets
+like in "<tt>3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex]</tt>". Please avoid repeating vendor
+names in device or subsystem names. If you have anything important to mention
+(especially why are you changing an existing entry), please add a discussion comment.
+
+<p>
+You may submit them on this site (for help see <a href='/?action=help?help=newitem'>this</a>) or
+send a patch to <a href='/static/pci.ids'>pci.ids</a> file to address <a href='mailto:pci-ids@ucw.cz'>pci-ids@ucw.cz</a>.
+See <a href='/?action=help?help=mailsubmit'>mail submit help</a>.
+
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