usefor-usepro-01 September 2004

7.7.  Duties of a Reading Agent

   A reading agent downloads articles from a serving agent, as directed
   by the reader, and displays them (or processes them in some other
   manner).  The article as displayed MUST be identical to the article
   as originally posted, subject only to limitations of the display
   device (such as availability of charsets, etc.). It MUST provide
   facilities for decoding any Content-Transfer-Encodings, encoded-
   words, etc., but SHOULD also have the capability to show the article
   exactly as received.

   It MAY present lists of articles available for display, and MAY
   structure those lists so as to show the relationships between the
   articles, as determined by the References-, Subject-, Date- and
   other-headers (see [USEAGE] for some usual methods of doing this). It
   MAY also be configured so that unwanted distributions (a-6.6) are
   ignored.