usefor-article-07 May 2002
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3.1. Principal Changes
o The [RFC 2822] conventions for parenthesis-enclosed comments in
headers are supported.
o Whitespace is permitted in Newsgroups-headers, permitting folding
of such headers. Indeed, all headers can now be folded.
o An enhanced syntax for the Path-header enables the injection
point of and the route taken by an article to be determined with
certainty.
o Netnews is firmly established as an 8bit medium and all headers
are deemed to be in the UTF-8 character set (thus permitting, in
particular, the use of non-ASCII newsgroup-names).
o Large parts of MIME are recognised as an integral part of
Netnews.
o There is a new Control message 'mvgroup' to facilitate moving a
group to a different place (name) in a hierarchy.
o There are several new headers defined, notably Archive,
Complaints-To, Injector-Info, Mail-Copies-To, Posted-And-Mailed
and User-Agent, leading to increased functionality.
o Provision has been made for almost all headers to have MIME-style
parameters (to be ignored if not recognized), thus facilitating
extension of those headers in future standards.
o Certain headers and Control messages (AppendixA.3 and Appendix
A.4) have been made obsolete.
o Distributions are expected to be checked at the receiving end, as
well as the sending end, of a relaying link.
o There are numerous other small changes, clarifications and
enhancements.
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o The [RFC 2822] conventions for parenthesis-enclosed comments in
headers are supported.
- o Whitespace is permitted in Newsgroups headers, permitting folding
- of such headers. Indeed, all news headers can now be folded.
- o An enhanced syntax for the Path header enables the injection
+ o Whitespace is permitted in Newsgroups-headers, permitting folding
+ of such headers. Indeed, all headers can now be folded.
+ o An enhanced syntax for the Path-header enables the injection
point of and the route taken by an article to be determined with
certainty.
- o Netnews is firmly established as an 8bit medium.
+ o Netnews is firmly established as an 8bit medium and all headers
+ are deemed to be in the UTF-8 character set (thus permitting, in
+ particular, the use of non-ASCII newsgroup-names).
o Large parts of MIME are recognised as an integral part of
Netnews.
- o The charset for headers is always UTF-8. This will, inter alia,
- permit newsgroup-names with non-ASCII characters.
- o There is a new Control command 'mvgroup' to facilitate moving a
+ o There is a new Control message 'mvgroup' to facilitate moving a
group to a different place (name) in a hierarchy.
- o There are several new headers defined, such as Injector-Info and
- Author-Ids, leading to increased functionality.
+ o There are several new headers defined, notably Archive,
+ Complaints-To, Injector-Info, Mail-Copies-To, Posted-And-Mailed
+ and User-Agent, leading to increased functionality.
+ o Provision has been made for almost all headers to have MIME-style
+ parameters (to be ignored if not recognized), thus facilitating
+ extension of those headers in future standards.
+ o Certain headers and Control messages (AppendixA.3 and Appendix
+ A.4) have been made obsolete.
+ o Distributions are expected to be checked at the receiving end, as
+ well as the sending end, of a relaying link.
o There are numerous other small changes, clarifications and
enhancements.
-[Doubtless many other changes should be listed, but there is little
-point in doing so until our text is nearing completion. The above gives
-the flavour of what should be said. There should also be references to
-Appendix A.3 and Appendix A.4 ]