usefor-article-10 April 2003

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).

--- ../usefor-article-09/Proto-articles.out          February 2003
+++ ../usefor-article-10/Proto-articles.out          April 2003