Standard Usenet Message Format

Standard Usenet Message Format

The Usenet Message Format is specified in RFC1036 and is based on the Internet Mail message format. Messages consist of headers and a body.

RFC1036 describes the use, form, and purpose of required headers....

RFC1036 2.1.1. From

RFC1036 2.1.2. Date

RFC1036 2.1.3. Newsgroups

RFC1036 2.1.4. Subject

RFC1036 2.1.5. Message-ID

RFC1036 2.1.6. Path

...and optional headers:

RFC1036 2.2.1. Reply-To

RFC1036 2.2.2. Sender

RFC1036 2.2.3. Followup-To

RFC1036 2.2.4. Expires

RFC1036 2.2.5. References

RFC1036 2.2.6. Control

RFC1036 2.2.7. Distribution

RFC1036 2.2.8. Organization

RFC1036 2.2.9. Keywords

RFC1036 2.2.10. Summary

RFC1036 2.2.11. Approved

RFC1036 2.2.12. Lines

RFC1036 2.2.13. Xref

See Also
RFC1036 as a single document at: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1036.html

Also, there is a work in progress which is a successor of RFC1036 which incorporates MIME.

Tim Pierce wrote software to do RFC1036 compliance checking on the "from" header available as a shell archive.

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