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

8.6. Duties of a Followup Agent

8.6.  Duties of a Followup Agent
   A Followup Agent is a special case of a posting agent and as such is
   bound by all the posting agent's requirements plus additional ones.
   Followup agents MUST create valid followups, in particular by
   providing correctly adjusted forms of those headers described as
   inheritable (4.2.2.2), notably the Newsgroups header (5.5), the
   Subject header (5.4) and the References header (6.10), and they Ought
   to observe appropriate quoting conventions in the body (see 4.3.2).

   Followup agents SHOULD initialize the Newsgroups header from the
   precursor's Followup-To header, if present, when preparing a
   followup; however posters MAY then change this before posting if they
   wish.

   Followup agents MUST NOT attempt to send email to any address ending
   in ".invalid".  Followup agents SHOULD NOT email copies of the
   followup to the poster of the precursor unless this has been
   explicitly requested by means of a Mail-Copies-To header (6.8), but
   they SHOULD include a Posted-And-Mailed header (6.9) whenever a copy
   is so emailed.

Diffs to previous draft

--- {draft-04}	Wed Jul 11 21:56:15 2001
+++ {draft-05}	Wed Jul 11 21:56:15 2001
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
    bound by all the posting agent's requirements plus additional ones.
    Followup agents MUST create valid followups, in particular by
    providing correctly adjusted forms of those headers described as
-   inheritable (4.2.2.2), notably the Newgroups header (5.5), the
+   inheritable (4.2.2.2), notably the Newsgroups header (5.5), the
    Subject header (5.4) and the References header (6.10), and they Ought
    to observe appropriate quoting conventions in the body (see 4.3.2).
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
    Followup agents MUST NOT attempt to send email to any address ending
    in ".invalid".  Followup agents SHOULD NOT email copies of the
-   followup to the author of the precursor unless this has been
+   followup to the poster of the precursor unless this has been
    explicitly requested by means of a Mail-Copies-To header (6.8), but
    they SHOULD include a Posted-And-Mailed header (6.9) whenever a copy
    is so emailed.