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Many MAIL headers, and many of those specified in present
and future MAIL extensions, are potentially applicable to
news. Headers specific to MAIL's point-to-point transmis-
sion paradigm, e.g. To and Cc, SHOULD not appear in news
articles. (Gateways wishing to preserve such information
for debugging probably SHOULD hide it under different names;
prefixing "X-" to the original headers, resulting in e.g.
"X-To", is suggested.)
The following optional headers are either specific to news
or of particular note in news articles; an article MAY con-
tain some or all of them. (Note that there are some circum-
stances in which some of them are mandatory; these are
explained under the individual headers.) An article MUST
not contain two or more headers with any one of these header
names.
NOTE: The ban on duplicate header names does not
apply to headers not specified in this Draft at
all, such as "X-" headers. Software should not
assume that all header names in a given article
are unique.
6.1. Followup-To
6.2. Expires
6.3. Reply-To
6.4. Sender
6.5. References
6.6. Control
6.7. Distribution
6.8. Keywords
6.9. Summary
6.10. Approved
6.11. Lines
6.12. Xref
6.13. Organization
6.14. Supersedes
6.15. Also-Control
6.16. See-Also
6.17. Article-Names
6.18. Article-Updates