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

7.4.1. Application/news-checkgroups

7.4.1.  Application/news-checkgroups
   The "application/news-checkgroups" body part contains a complete list
   of all the newsgroups in a hierarchy, their newsgroup-descriptions
   and their moderation status.

   The MIME content type definition of "application/news-checkgroups"
   is:

   MIME type name:           application
   MIME subtype name:        news-checkgroups
   Required parameters:      none
   Disposition:              by default, inline
   Encoding considerations:  "7bit" or "8bit" is sufficient and MUST be
                             used to maintain compatibility.
   Security considerations:  this type MUST NOT be used except as part
                             of a checkgroups control message

   The content of the "application/news-checkgroups" body part is
   defined as:

      checkgroups-body    = *( valid-group CRLF )
      valid-group         = newsgroups-line ; see 7.1.2
   The whole checkgroups-body is intended to be interpreted as a text
   written in the UTF-8 character set.

   The "application/news-checkgroups" content type is used in
   conjunction with the "checkgroups" control message (7.4).

        NOTE: The possibility of removing a complete hierarchy by means
        of an "invalidation" line beginning with a '!' is no longer
        provided by this standard. The intent of the feature was widely
        misunderstood and it was misused more often than it was used
        correctly. The same effect, if required, can now be obtained by
        the use of an appropriate chkscope argument in conjunction with
        an empty checkgroups-body.

Diffs to previous draft

--- {draft-04}	Wed Jul 11 21:56:06 2001
+++ {draft-05}	Wed Jul 11 21:56:06 2001
@@ -34,3 +34,4 @@
         the use of an appropriate chkscope argument in conjunction with
         an empty checkgroups-body.
 
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