usefor-article-11 June 2003

4.3.2.  Body Conventions

   A body is by default an uninterpreted sequence of octets for most of
   the purposes of this standard. However, a MIME Content-Type-header
   may impose some structure or intended interpretation upon it, and may
   also specify the character set in accordance with which the octets
   are to be interpreted.

--- ../usefor-article-10/Body_Conventions.out          April 2003
+++ ../usefor-article-11/Body_Conventions.out          June 2003
@@ -5,73 +5,4 @@
    may impose some structure or intended interpretation upon it, and may
    also specify the character set in accordance with which the octets
    are to be interpreted.
-
-   The following conventions for quotations, attributions and
-   signatures, although not mandated by this standard, describe widely
-   used practices. They are documented here in order to establish their
-   correct usage, and the use of the words "MUST", "SHOULD", etc. is to
-   be understood in that context.
-
-   It is conventional for followup agents to enable the incorporation of
-   the followed-up article (the "precursor") as a quotation. This SHOULD
-   be done by prefacing each line of the quoted text (even if it is
-   empty) with the character ">" (or perhaps with "> " in the case of a
-   previously unquoted line). This will result in multiple levels of ">"
-   when quoted content itself contains quoted content, and it will also
-   facilitate the automatic analysis of articles.
-
-        NOTE: Posters should edit quoted context to trim it down to the
-        minimum necessary. However, followup agents Ought Not to attempt
-        to enforce this beyond issuing a warning (past attempts to do so
-        have been found to be notably counter-productive).
-
-   The followup agent SHOULD also precede the quoted content by an
-   "attribution line" (however, readers are warned not to assume that
-   they are accurate, especially within multiply nested quotations). The
-   following convention for such lines is intended to facilitate their
-   automatic recognition and processing by sophisticated reading agents.
-   The attribution SHOULD contain the name and/or the email address of
-   the precursor's poster, as in
-      Joe D. Bloggs <jdbloggs@foo.example> wrote:
-   or
-      Helmut Schmidt <helmut@bar.example> schrieb:
-
-   The attribution MAY contain also a single newsgroup-name (the one
-   from which the followup is being made), the precursor's Message-ID
-   and/or the precursor's Date and Time. Any of these that are present,
-   SHOULD precede the name and/or email address. However, the inclusion
-   or not of such fields Ought always to be under the control of the
-   poster.
-
-   To enable this line, and the Message-ID and the email address within
-   it, to be recognized (for example to enable suitable reading agents
-   to retrieve the precursor or email its poster by clicking on them),
-   the following conventions SHOULD be observed:
-     o The precursor's Message-ID SHOULD be enclosed within <...> or
-       <news:...>
-     o The precursor's poster's email address SHOULD be enclosed within
-       <...>
-     o The various fields may be separated by arbitrary text and they
-       may be folded in the same way as headers, but attributions SHOULD
-       always be terminated by a ":" followed by CRLF.
-
-   Further examples:
-
-      On comp.foo in <1234@bar.example> on 24 Dec 2001 16:40:20 +0000,
-         Joe D. Bloggs <jdbloggs@bar.example> wrote:
-
-      Am 24. Dez 2001 schrieb Helmut Schmidt <helmut@bar.example>:
-
-   A "personal signature" is a short closing text automatically added to
-   the end of articles by posting agents, identifying the poster and
-   giving his network addresses, etc. Whenever a poster or posting agent
-   appends such a signature to an article, it MUST be preceded with a
-   delimiter line containing (only) two hyphens (US-ASCII 45) followed
-   by one SP (US-ASCII 32). The signature is considered to extend from
-   the last occurrence of that delimiter up to the end of the article
-   (or up to the end of the part in the case of a multipart MIME body).
-   Followup agents, when incorporating quoted text from a precursor,
-   Ought Not to include the signature in the quotation. Posting agents
-   Ought to discourage (at least with a warning) signatures of excessive
-   length (4 lines is a commonly accepted limit).