usefor-usepro-00 August 2004

7.2.1.  Proto-articles

   A proto-article 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).  However, if it is intended to offer the proto-article to
   two or more injecting agents in parallel, then it is only the Path-
   header that MAY be omitted.  The headers that can be omitted MUST NOT
   contain invalid values; they MUST either be correct or not present at
   all.
[Maybe omit that last sentence.]

        NOTE: An article that is offered for reinjection has, by
        definition, already been injected once, and is not therefore to
        be considered as a proto-article.  Hence a genuine proto-article
        will not contain any Injection-Date-header nor any '%' path-
        delimiter in its Path-header. It MAY contain path-identities
        with other path-delimiters in the pre-injection portion of its
        Path-header (a-5.6.3).

--- ../usefor-article-13/Proto-articles.out          May 2004
+++ ../usefor-usepro-00/Proto-articles.out          August 2004
@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
-8.2.1.  Proto-articles
+7.2.1.  Proto-articles
 
-   A proto-article is one that has been created by a posting agent and
-   has not yet been injected into a Netnews system by an injecting
-   agent. It SHOULD NOT be propagated in that form to other than
+   A proto-article 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).  However, if it is intended to offer the proto-article to
    two or more injecting agents in parallel, then it is only the Path-
-   header that MAY be omitted.  The omitted headers MUST NOT contain
-   invalid values; they MUST either be correct or not present at all.
+   header that MAY be omitted.  The headers that can be omitted MUST NOT
+   contain invalid values; they MUST either be correct or not present at
+   all.
+[Maybe omit that last sentence.]
 
         NOTE: An article that is offered for reinjection has, by
         definition, already been injected once, and is not therefore to
@@ -21,5 +20,5 @@
         will not contain any Injection-Date-header nor any '%' path-
         delimiter in its Path-header. It MAY contain path-identities
         with other path-delimiters in the pre-injection portion of its
-        Path-header (5.6.3).
+        Path-header (a-5.6.3).