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An RFC (Request For Comment) is a formal mechanism used to describe communi-
cations standards for the Internet and systems (like USENET) that are closely
tied to it. The relevant RFCs for news include:
1123 Requirements for Internet hosts - application and support. Braden, R.T.,
ed. 1989 October; 98 p. (Format: TXT=245503 bytes) (Updated by RFC
1349)
(A small part of this long RFC is relevant to news: it amends RFC 822 so
that, in dates, a 4-digit year is no longer prohibited, but is preferred;
and that numeric time zone names are suggested).
1036 Horton, M.R.; Adams, R. Standard for interchange of USENET messages.
1987 December; 19 p. (Format: TXT=46891 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC 850)
(This is the most relevant of this set, to this newsgroup. Note: an effort
is currently underway to revise and update RFC 1036 to better reflect modern
practice. A *long* (53pp.) draft proposal of this "Son-of-RFC-1036" is
available for anonymous ftp from zoo.toronto.edu in file pub/news.txt.Z. As
above, FTP during their peak hours (12h00-17h00 Eastern) is not encouraged.)
977 Kantor, B.; Lapsley, P. Network News Transfer Protocol. 1986
February; 27 p. (Format: TXT=55062 bytes)
976 Horton, M.R. UUCP mail interchange format standard. 1986 February;
12 p. (Format: TXT=26814 bytes)
822 Crocker, D. Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages.
1982 August 13; 47 p. (Format: TXT=109200 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC 733)
Online copies of RFCs are available via FTP or Kermit from NIC.DDN.MIL as
rfc:rfc####.txt or rfc:rfc####.ps (#### is the RFC number without leading
zeroes).
Additionally, RFCs may be requested through electronic mail from the
with a subject line of "RFC ####" for text versions or a subject line
of "RFC ####.PS" for PostScript versions. To obtain the RFC index,
the subject line of your message should read "RFC index".
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