usefor-article-12 November 2003

4.3.  Body

   The body of an article SHOULD NOT be empty. A posting or injecting
   agent which does not reject such an article entirely SHOULD at least
   issue a warning message to the poster and supply a non-empty body.
   Note that the separator line MUST be present even if the body is
   empty.

        NOTE: Some existing news software is known to react badly to
        body-less articles, hence the request for posting and injecting
        agents to insert a body in such cases. The sentence "This
        article was probably generated by a buggy news reader" has
        traditionally been used in this situation.

   Note that an article body is a sequence of lines terminated by CRLFs,
   not arbitrary binary data, although a MIME Content-Type-header may
   impose some structure or intended interpretation upon it.  In
   particular the body MUST end with a CRLF.

--- ../usefor-article-11/Body.out          June 2003
+++ ../usefor-article-12/Body.out          November 2003
@@ -1,2 +1,19 @@
 4.3.  Body
+
+   The body of an article SHOULD NOT be empty. A posting or injecting
+   agent which does not reject such an article entirely SHOULD at least
+   issue a warning message to the poster and supply a non-empty body.
+   Note that the separator line MUST be present even if the body is
+   empty.
+
+        NOTE: Some existing news software is known to react badly to
+        body-less articles, hence the request for posting and injecting
+        agents to insert a body in such cases. The sentence "This
+        article was probably generated by a buggy news reader" has
+        traditionally been used in this situation.
+
+   Note that an article body is a sequence of lines terminated by CRLFs,
+   not arbitrary binary data, although a MIME Content-Type-header may
+   impose some structure or intended interpretation upon it.  In
+   particular the body MUST end with a CRLF.