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Title : News Article Format
Author(s) : D. Kohn
Filename : draft-kohn-news-article-01.txt
Pages : 19
Date : 2003-2-19
This document defines the format and procedures for interchange of
network news articles. It updates and obsoletes RFC 1036, in
particular adding support for internationalization of headers and
message bodies and multimedia support in message bodies. It does
this in a manner designed to maximize backward compatibility with
news and mail servers, gateways, and user agents.
Network news articles resemble mail messages but are broadcast to
potentially-large audiences, using a flooding algorithm that
propagates one copy to each interested host (or group thereof),
typically stores only one copy per host, and does not require any
central administration or systematic registration of interested
users. Network news originated as the medium of communication for
Usenet, circa 1980. Since then Usenet has grown explosively, and many
Internet sites participate in it. In addition, the news technology is
now in widespread use for other purposes, on the Internet and
elsewhere.
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