2.3. Relation To Mail and MIME The primary intent of this standard is to describe the news article format. Insofar as news articles are a subset of the Mail message format augmented by some new headers, this standard incorporates many (though not all) of the provisions of [RFC 2822], with the aim of enabling news articles to pass through mail systems and vice versa, provided only that they contain the minimum headers required for the mode of transport being used. Unfortunately, the match is not perfect, but it is the intention of this standard that gateways between Mail and News should be able to operate with the minimum of tinkering. Likewise, this standard incorporates many (though not all) of the provisions of the MIME standards [RFC 2045] et seq which, though designed with Mail in mind, are mostly applicable to News.[< Prev] [TOC] [ Next >]
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