usefor-article-11 June 2003
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5.6. Path
The Path-header shows the route taken by a message since its entry
into the Netnews system. It is a variant header (4.2.5.3), each agent
that processes an article being required to add one (or more) entries
to it. This is primarily to enable relaying agents to avoid sending
articles to sites already known to have them, in particular the site
they came from, and additionally to permit tracing the route articles
take in moving over the network, and for gathering Usenet statistics.
Finally the presence of a '%' path-delimiter in the Path-header can
be used to identify an article injected in conformance with this
standard.
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