INTERNET-DRAFT                               Charles H. Lindsey
Usenet Format Working Group                  University of Manchester
                                             July 2001

2.3. Relation To Mail and MIME

2.3.  Relation To Mail and MIME
   The primary intent of this standard is to describe the news article
   format.  Insofar as news articles are a subset of the Mail message
   format augmented by some new headers, this standard incorporates many
   (though not all) of the provisions of [RFC 2822], with the aim of
   enabling news articles to pass through mail systems and vice versa,
   provided only that they contain the minimum headers required for the
   mode of transport being used. Unfortunately, the match is not
   perfect, but it is the intention of this standard that gateways
   between Mail and News should be able to operate with the minimum of
   tinkering.

   Likewise, this standard incorporates many (though not all) of the
   provisions of the MIME standards [RFC 2045] et seq which, though
   designed with Mail in mind, are mostly applicable to News.

Diffs to previous draft

--- {draft-04}	Wed Jul 11 21:54:55 2001
+++ {draft-05}	Wed Jul 11 21:54:56 2001
@@ -2,23 +2,15 @@
    The primary intent of this standard is to describe the news article
    format.  Insofar as news articles are a subset of the Mail message
    format augmented by some new headers, this standard incorporates many
-   (though not all) of the provisions of [MESSFOR], with the aim of
+   (though not all) of the provisions of [RFC 2822], with the aim of
    enabling news articles to pass through mail systems and vice versa,
    provided only that they contain the minimum headers required for the
    mode of transport being used. Unfortunately, the match is not
    perfect, but it is the intention of this standard that gateways
    between Mail and News should be able to operate with the minimum of
    tinkering.
-[This standard has been designed to fit on top of the drafts currently
-in preparation for Mail [MESSFOR].  It is expected that those drafts
-will have progressed to the RFC stage by the time the present standard
-in complete, at which time all references to [MESSFOR] in the present
-text will be replaced by references to that RFC.]
 
    Likewise, this standard incorporates many (though not all) of the
    provisions of the MIME standards [RFC 2045] et seq which, though
    designed with Mail in mind, are mostly applicable to News.
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