7.7. Duties of a Reading Agent A reading agent downloads articles from a serving agent, as directed by the reader, and displays them to the reader (or processes them in some other manner). It SHOULD also have the capability to show the raw article exactly as received. It MAY present lists of articles available for display, and MAY structure those lists so as to show the relationships between the articles, as determined by the References, Subject, Date and other headers (see [USEAGE] for some usual methods of doing this). [This whole section may yet get omitted][< Prev] [TOC] [ Next >]
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7.7. Duties of a Reading Agent
A reading agent downloads articles from a serving agent, as directed
- by the reader, and displays them (or processes them in some other
- manner), subject to any limitations of the reading agent, such as
- availability of charsets, and having first decoded any Content-
- Transfer-Encodings, encoded-words, etc. It SHOULD also have the
- capability to show the raw article exactly as received.
+ by the reader, and displays them to the reader (or processes them in
+ some other manner). It SHOULD also have the capability to show the
+ raw article exactly as received.
It MAY present lists of articles available for display, and MAY
structure those lists so as to show the relationships between the
- articles, as determined by the References-, Subject-, Date- and
- other-headers (see [USEAGE] for some usual methods of doing this).
+ articles, as determined by the References, Subject, Date and other
+ headers (see [USEAGE] for some usual methods of doing this).
[This whole section may yet get omitted]