usefor-usefor-02 November 2004

1.2  Scope

   This document specifies the syntax of network news (Netnews) articles
   in the context of the "Internet Message Format" [RFC2822] and
   "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)" [RFC2045].  This
   document supersedes [RFC1036], updating it to reflect current
   practice and incorporating changes and clarifications specified in
   other documents such as [Son-of-1036].

   This is the first in a set of documents that obsolete [RFC1036].
   This document focuses on the syntax and semantics of Netnews
   articles.  [USEPRO] is also a standards-track document, and describes
   the protocol issues of network news articles, independent of
   transport protocols such as [NNTP].  An best common practice
   document, [USEAGE], describes implementation recommendations to
   improve interoperability and usability.

   This specification is intended as a definition of what article
   content format is to be passed between systems.  Though some news
   systems locally store articles in this format (which eliminates the
   need for translation between formats) and others use formats that
   differ from the one specified in this standard, local storage is
   outside of the scope of this standard.

--- ../usefor-usefor-01/Scope.out          September 2004
+++ ../usefor-usefor-02/Scope.out          November 2004
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 1.2  Scope
 
-   This document specifies the syntax of network news articles in the
-   context of the "Internet Message Format" [RFC2822] and "Multipurpose
-   Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)" [RFC2045].  This document supersedes
-   [RFC1036], updating it to reflect current practice and incorporating
-   incremental changes specified in other documents such as
-   [Son-of-1036].
+   This document specifies the syntax of network news (Netnews) articles
+   in the context of the "Internet Message Format" [RFC2822] and
+   "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)" [RFC2045].  This
+   document supersedes [RFC1036], updating it to reflect current
+   practice and incorporating changes and clarifications specified in
+   other documents such as [Son-of-1036].
 
    This is the first in a set of documents that obsolete [RFC1036].
-   This document focuses on the syntax and semantics of network news
+   This document focuses on the syntax and semantics of Netnews
    articles.  [USEPRO] is also a standards-track document, and describes
    the protocol issues of network news articles, independent of
-   transmission protocols such as NNTP [RFC0977].  An informational
+   transport protocols such as [NNTP].  An best common practice
    document, [USEAGE], describes implementation recommendations to
    improve interoperability and usability.
 
@@ -21,13 +21,4 @@
    need for translation between formats) and others use formats that
    differ from the one specified in this standard, local storage is
    outside of the scope of this standard.
-
-   Note: This standard is not intended to dictate the internal formats
-   used by sites, the specific news system features that they are
-   expected to support, or any of the characteristics of user interface
-   programs that create or read articles.  In addition, this standard
-   does not specify an encoding of the characters for either transport
-   or storage; that is, it does not specify the number of bits used or
-   how those bits are specifically transferred over the wire or stored
-   on disk.