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

Appendix A.2 - Early B-News Article Format

Appendix A.2 - Early B-News Article Format
   The obsolete pseudo-Internet article format, used briefly during the
   transition between the A News format and the modern format, followed
   the general outline of a MAIL message but with some non-standard
   headers. For example:

      From: cbosgd!mhuxj!mhuxt!eagle!jerry (Jerry Schwarz)
      Newsgroups: news.misc
      Title: Usenet Etiquette -- Please Read
      Article-I.D.: eagle.642
      Posted: Fri Nov 19 16:14:55 1982
      Received: Fri Nov 19 16:59:30 1982
      Expires: Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1990

      body
      body
      body

   The From header contained the information now found in the Path
   header, plus possibly the full name now typically found in the From
   header. The Title header contained what is now the Subject content.
   The Posted header contained what is now the Date content. The
   Article-I.D. header contained an article ID, analogous to a message
   ID and used for similar purposes. The Newsgroups and Expires headers
   were approximately as now. The Received header contained the date
   when the latest relayer to process the article first saw it. All
   dates were in the above format, with all fields fixed width,
   resembling an Internet date but not quite the same.

   This format is documented for archeological purposes only.  Articles
   MUST NOT be generated in this format.

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