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Also known as: Netnews Architecture and Protocols
Covers netnews architecture rather than article syntax: how servers relay articles to peers, how the Path header records the route, how control messages such as newgroup and cancel are meant to be handled, and what injecting agents must do. Published in 2009 alongside RFC 5536, the pair replaced RFC 1036 from 1987. It describes propagation rules that news administrators still follow.
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