usefor-article-04 April 2001

8.6.  Duties of a Followup Agent

   A Followup Agent is a special case of a posting agent and as such is
   bound by all the posting agent's requirements plus additional ones.
   Followup agents MUST create valid followups, in particular by
   providing correctly adjusted forms of those headers described as
   inheritable (4.2.2.2), notably the Newgroups header (5.5), the
   Subject header (5.4) and the References header (6.10), and they Ought
   to observe appropriate quoting conventions in the body (see 4.3.2).

   Followup agents SHOULD initialize the Newsgroups header from the
   precursor's Followup-To header, if present, when preparing a
   followup; however posters MAY then change this before posting if they
   wish.

   Followup agents MUST NOT attempt to send email to any address ending
   in ".invalid".  Followup agents SHOULD NOT email copies of the
   followup to the author of the precursor unless this has been
   explicitly requested by means of a Mail-Copies-To header (6.8), but
   they SHOULD include a Posted-And-Mailed header (6.9) whenever a copy
   is so emailed.

--- ../usefor-article-03/Duties_of_a_Followup_Agent.out          February 2000
+++ ../usefor-article-04/Duties_of_a_Followup_Agent.out          April 2001
@@ -5,16 +5,18 @@
    Followup agents MUST create valid followups, in particular by
    providing correctly adjusted forms of those headers described as
    inheritable (4.2.2.2), notably the Newgroups header (5.5), the
-   Subject header (5.4) and the References header (6.8), and they SHOULD
-   observe appropriate quoting conventions in the body (see 4.3.2).
+   Subject header (5.4) and the References header (6.10), and they Ought
+   to observe appropriate quoting conventions in the body (see 4.3.2).
 
-   Followup agents MUST by default follow the Followup-To header when
-   deciding which newsgroups a followup is posted to; however posters
-   MAY override the default if they wish.
+   Followup agents SHOULD initialize the Newsgroups header from the
+   precursor's Followup-To header, if present, when preparing a
+   followup; however posters MAY then change this before posting if they
+   wish.
 
    Followup agents MUST NOT attempt to send email to any address ending
    in ".invalid".  Followup agents SHOULD NOT email copies of the
-   followup to the author of the precursor (or any other person) unless
-   this has been explicitly requested.
-[Mention the Mail-Copies-To header if/when we have that.]
+   followup to the author of the precursor unless this has been
+   explicitly requested by means of a Mail-Copies-To header (6.8), but
+   they SHOULD include a Posted-And-Mailed header (6.9) whenever a copy
+   is so emailed.