usefor-article-07 May 2002

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-header, Date-header, Path-header (and even From-header if
   the particular injecting agent can derive that information from other
   sources). These headers MUST NOT contain invalid values; they MUST
   either be correct or not present at all.

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

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--- ../usefor-article-06/Proto-articles.out          November 2001
+++ ../usefor-article-07/Proto-articles.out          May 2002
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@
    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.
+   Message-Id-header, Date-header, Path-header (and even From-header if
+   the particular injecting agent can derive that information from other
+   sources). 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).
+   A proto-article SHOULD NOT contain the '%' path-delimiter in any
+   Path-header, except in the rare cases where an article gets injected
+   twice. It MAY contain path-identities with other path-delimiters in
+   the pre-injection portion of the Path-header (5.6.3).

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