usefor-article-08 August 2002

5.6.4.  Path-Delimiter Summary

   A summary of the various path-delimiters. The name immediately to the
   left of the path-delimiter is always that of the machine which added
   the path-delimiter.

   '/' The name immediately to the right is known to be the identity of
       the machine from which the article was received (either because
       the entry was made by that machine and we have verified it, or
       because we have added it ourselves).

   '?' The name immediately to the right is the claimed identity of the
       machine from which the article was received, but we were unable
       to verify it (and have prepended our own view of where it came
       from, and then a '/').
   '%' Everything to the right is the pre-injection region followed by
       the tail-entry.  The name on the left is the FQDN of the
       injecting agent. The presence of two '%'s in a path indicates a
       double-injection (see 8.2.2).

   '!' The name immediately to the right is unverified. The presence of
       a '!' to the left of the '%' indicates that the identity to the
       left is that of an old-style system not conformant with this
       standard.

   ',' Reserved for future use, treat as '/'.

   Other
       Old software may possibly use other path-delimiters, which should
       be treated as '!'.  But note in particular that ':', '-' and '_'
       are components of names, not path-delimiters, and FWS on its own
       MUST NOT be used as the sole path-delimiter.

        NOTE: Old Netnews relaying and injecting agents almost all
        delimit Path entries with a '!', and these entries are not
        verified.  The presence of '%' indicates that the article was
        injected by software conforming to this standard, and the
        presence of '!' to the left of a '%' indicates that the message
        passed through systems developed prior to this standard. It is
        anticipated that relaying agents will reject articles in the old
        style once this new standard has been widely adopted.

--- ../usefor-article-07/Path-Delimiter_Summary.out          May 2002
+++ ../usefor-article-08/Path-Delimiter_Summary.out          August 2002
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
        machine from which the article was received, but we were unable
        to verify it (and have prepended our own view of where it came
        from, and then a '/').
-
    '%' Everything to the right is the pre-injection region followed by
        the tail-entry.  The name on the left is the FQDN of the
        injecting agent. The presence of two '%'s in a path indicates a