s-o-1036 June 1994

6. Optional Headers

Many  MAIL  headers,  and many of those specified in present
and future MAIL extensions, are  potentially  applicable  to
news.   Headers  specific to MAIL's point-to-point transmis-
sion paradigm, e.g. To and Cc, SHOULD  not  appear  in  news
articles.   (Gateways  wishing  to preserve such information

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for debugging probably SHOULD hide it under different names;
prefixing  "X-"  to  the original headers, resulting in e.g.
"X-To", is suggested.)

The following optional headers are either specific  to  news
or  of particular note in news articles; an article MAY con-
tain some or all of them.  (Note that there are some circum-
stances  in  which  some  of  them  are mandatory; these are
explained under the individual headers.)   An  article  MUST
not contain two or more headers with any one of these header
names.

     NOTE: The ban on duplicate header names  does  not
     apply  to  headers  not specified in this Draft at
     all, such as "X-" headers.   Software  should  not
     assume  that  all  header names in a given article
     are unique.

--- ../rfc1036/Optional_Headers.out          December 1987
+++ ../s-o-1036/Optional_Headers.out          June 1994
@@ -1,2 +1,29 @@
-2.2.  Optional Headers
+6. Optional Headers
+
+Many  MAIL  headers,  and many of those specified in present
+and future MAIL extensions, are  potentially  applicable  to
+news.   Headers  specific to MAIL's point-to-point transmis-
+sion paradigm, e.g. To and Cc, SHOULD  not  appear  in  news
+articles.   (Gateways  wishing  to preserve such information
+
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+
+
+for debugging probably SHOULD hide it under different names;
+prefixing  "X-"  to  the original headers, resulting in e.g.
+"X-To", is suggested.)
+
+The following optional headers are either specific  to  news
+or  of particular note in news articles; an article MAY con-
+tain some or all of them.  (Note that there are some circum-
+stances  in  which  some  of  them  are mandatory; these are
+explained under the individual headers.)   An  article  MUST
+not contain two or more headers with any one of these header
+names.
+
+     NOTE: The ban on duplicate header names  does  not
+     apply  to  headers  not specified in this Draft at
+     all, such as "X-" headers.   Software  should  not
+     assume  that  all  header names in a given article
+     are unique.