usefor-article-10 April 2003

7.2.1.3.  Initial Articles

   Some subparts of a "newgroup" or "mvgroup" control message MAY
   contain an initial set of articles to be posted to the affected
   newsgroup(s) as soon as it has been created or modified. These parts
   are identified by having the Content-Type "application/news-
   transmission", possibly with the parameter "usage=inject".  The body
   of each such part should be a complete proto-article, ready for
   posting. This feature is intended for the posting of charters,
   initial FAQs and the like to the newly formed group(s).

   The Newsgroups-header of the proto-article MUST include the
   newsgroup-name of the newly created or modified group. It MAY include
   other newsgroup-names. If the proto-article includes a Message-ID-
   header, the message identifier in it MUST be different from that of
   any existing article and from that of the control message as a whole.
   Alternatively such a message identifier MAY be derived by the
   injecting agent when the proto-article is posted. The proto-article
   SHOULD include the header "Distribution: local".

   The proto-article SHOULD be injected at the serving agent that
   processes the control message AFTER the newsgroup in question has
   been created or modified.  It MUST NOT be injected if the newsgroup
   is not, in fact, created (for whatever reason). It MUST NOT be
   submitted to any relaying agent for transmission beyond the serving
   agent(s) upon which the newsgroup creation has just been effected (in
   other words, it is to be treated as having a "Distribution:  local"
   header, whether such a header is actually present or not).

        NOTE: It is not precluded that the proto-article is itself a
        control message or other type of special article, to be
        activated only upon creation of the new newsgroup. However,
        except as might arise from that possibility, any
        "application/news-transmission" within some nested "multipart/*"
        structure within the proto-article is not to be activated.

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