usefor-article-04 April 2001

8.2.1.  Proto-articles

   A proto-article is one that has been created by a posting agent and
   has not yet been injected into the news system by an injecting agent.
   It SHOULD NOT be propagated in that form to other than injecting
   agents. A proto-article has the same format as a normal article
   except that some of the following mandatory headers MAY be omitted:
   Message-Id, Date and Path. These headers MUST NOT contain invalid
   values; they MUST either be correct or not present at all.

   A proto-article SHOULD NOT contain the '%' delimiter in any Path
   header, except in the rare cases where an article gets injected
   twice. It MAY contain path-identities with other delimiters in the
   pre-injection portion of the Path header (5.6.3).

--- ../usefor-article-03/Proto-articles.out          February 2000
+++ ../usefor-article-04/Proto-articles.out          April 2001