usefor-usepro-03 February 2005

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,
   Date, Path (and even From 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-identity>s
        with other <path-delimiter>s in the pre-injection portion of its
        Path header (a-5.6.3).
[Assuming relevant mention of <path-delimiter> conventions in USEFOR.]

--- ../usefor-usepro-02/Proto-articles.out          December 2004
+++ ../usefor-usepro-03/Proto-articles.out          February 2005
@@ -4,21 +4,21 @@
    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.
+   some of the following mandatory headers MAY be omitted:  Message-Id,
+   Date, Path (and even From 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).
+        will not contain any Injection-Date header nor any '%' <path-
+        delimiter> in its Path header. It MAY contain <path-identity>s
+        with other <path-delimiter>s in the pre-injection portion of its
+        Path header (a-5.6.3).
+[Assuming relevant mention of <path-delimiter> conventions in USEFOR.]