RFC 850: Standard for interchange of USENET messages
This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 1036.
Current document in this lineage: RFC 5536 — Netnews Article Format; RFC 5537 — Netnews Architecture and Protocols
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This memo is distributed as an RFC only to make this information easily accessible to researchers in the ARPA community. It does not specify an Internet standard. This RFC defines the standard format for interchange of Network News articles among USENET sites. It describes the format for articles themselves, and gives partial standards for transmission of news. The news transmission is not entirely standardized in order to give a good deal of flexibility to the individual hosts to choose transmission hardware and software, whether to batch news and so on.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC850
- Published
- June 1983
- Authors
- M.R. Horton
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 17
- Also known as
- —
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 1036
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 5 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
Read the full history of Netnews Architecture and Protocols →
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