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Title : News Article Format
Author(s) : D. Kohn
Filename : draft-kohn-news-article-02.txt
Pages : 20
Date : 2003-3-24
This document defines the format of network news articles. This is
the first of four documents that update and obsolete RFC 1036. This
document focuses on the syntax semantics of network news articles.
RFC XXXX is also a standards-track document describing the protocol
issues for network news transmission, independent of protocols such
as NNTP and IMAP. An informational document, RFC YYYY, describes
recommendations to improve interoperability and usability. The
fourth document, RFC ZZZZ, an experimental document, specifies
internationalization of message headers.
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.
This document defines the format of network news articles in the
context of the Internet Message Format, and adds MIME support for
multimedia and internationalized message bodies.
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