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

6.14. Approved

6.14.  Approved
   The Approved header indicates the mailing addresses (and possibly the
   full names) of the persons or entities approving the article for
   posting.

      Approved-content    = From-content  ; see 5.2

   Each mailbox contained in the Approved-content MUST be that of the
   person or entity in question, and one of those mailboxes MUST be that
   of the actual injector of the article.
[This is the start of an attempt to strengthen this header. It should be
a TOSSable offence to put a dummy or invalid address in here. Later,
when we have some form of authentication, I would hope to be able to say
more.]

   An Approved header is required in all postings to moderated
   newsgroups. If this header is not present in such postings, then
   relaying and serving agents MUST reject the article. Please see
   section 8.2.2 for how injecting agents should treat postings to
   moderated groups that do not contain this header.

   An Approved header is also required in certain control messages, to
   reduce the risk of accidental posting of same; see the relevant parts
   of section 7.

Diffs to previous draft

Files {draft-04} and {draft-05} are identical