Standard for interchange of USENET messages
RFC 850, “Standard for interchange of USENET messages”, is an Unknown document published in June 1983 by M.R. Horton. It has been obsoleted by RFC 1036 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
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.
What “Unknown” means
The standards-track status of this early RFC was never formally classified.
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- RFC 851 ARPANET 1822L Host Access Protocol
- RFC 848 Who provides the "little" TCP services?
- RFC 852 ARPANET short blocking feature
- RFC 847 Summary of Smallberg surveys
- RFC 846 Who talks TCP? - survey of 22 February 1983
- RFC 854 Telnet Protocol Specification
- RFC 845 Who talks TCP? - survey of 15 February 1983