usefor-usepro-02 December 2004
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6.2.1.2. Initial Articles
Some subparts of a "newgroup" or "mvgroup" control message MAY
contain an initial set of articles to be posted to the affected
newsgroup as soon as it has been created or modified. These parts are
identified by having the Media Type "application/news-transmission",
possibly with the parameter "usage=inject". The body of each such
part should be a complete proto-article, ready for posting. This
feature is intended for the posting of charters, initial FAQs and the
like to the newly formed group.
The Newsgroups-header of the proto-article MUST include the
newsgroup-name of the newly created or modified group. It MAY include
other newsgroup-names. If the proto-article includes a Message-ID-
header, the message identifier in it MUST be different from that of
any existing article and from that of the control message as a whole.
Alternatively such a message identifier MAY be derived by the
injecting agent when the proto-article is posted. The proto-article
SHOULD include the header "Distribution: local".
The proto-article SHOULD be injected at the serving agent that
processes the control message AFTER the newsgroup in question has
been created or modified. It MUST NOT be injected if the newsgroup
is not, in fact, created (for whatever reason). It MUST NOT be
submitted to any relaying agent for transmission beyond the serving
agent(s) upon which the newsgroup creation has just been effected (in
other words, it is to be treated as having a "Distribution: local"
header, whether such a header is actually present or not).
NOTE: It is not precluded that the proto-article is itself a
control message or other type of special article, to be
activated only upon creation of the new newsgroup. However,
except as might arise from that possibility, any
"application/news-transmission" within some nested "multipart/*"
structure within the proto-article is not to be activated.
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