Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Assumptions in mthreads about References/Message-Id lines
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.163300.8172@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <582@pallas.athenanet.com> <1991Jan29.064624.357@twinsun.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 1991 16:33:00 GMT

In article <1991Jan29.064624.357@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
>... if you want to know the current
>news-related standards, the following list may be a bit more up-to-date than
>your copy:
>
>    RFC 822 specifies the format of messages; RFC 1036 uses this.
>    RFC 977 specifies NNTP, the Network News Transfer Protocol.
>    RFC 1036 specifies the format of Usenet articles.
>    RFC 1123 amends RFC 822.
>    RFC 1153 specifies the digest format sometimes used in moderated groups.

You might also want to look at notebook/rfcerrata in the C News distribution,
which corrects a number of minor errors in RFC1036 and discusses some
ambiguous and/or contentious points about it.
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