INTERNET-DRAFT Charles H. Lindsey
Usenet Format Working Group University of Manchester
July 2001
8.2.1. Proto-articles
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8.2.1. Proto-articles
A proto-article is one that has been created by a posting agent and
has not yet been injected into the news system by an injecting agent.
It SHOULD NOT be propagated in that form to other than injecting
agents. A proto-article has the same format as a normal article
except that some of the following mandatory headers MAY be omitted:
Message-Id, Date and Path. These headers MUST NOT contain invalid
values; they MUST either be correct or not present at all.
A proto-article SHOULD NOT contain the '%' delimiter in any Path
header, except in the rare cases where an article gets injected
twice. It MAY contain path-identities with other delimiters in the
pre-injection portion of the Path header (5.6.3).
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