3.6. NEWS
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3.6. NEWS
The news URL scheme is used to refer to either news groups or
individual articles of USENET news, as specified in RFC 1036.
A news URL takes one of two forms:
news:<newsgroup-name>
news:<message-id>
A <newsgroup-name> is a period-delimited hierarchical name, such as
"comp.infosystems.www.misc". A <message-id> corresponds to the
Message-ID of section 2.1.5 of RFC 1036, without the enclosing "<"
and ">"; it takes the form <unique>@<full_domain_name>. A message
identifier may be distinguished from a news group name by the
presence of the commercial at "@" character. No additional characters
are reserved within the components of a news URL.
If <newsgroup-name> is "*" (as in <URL:news:*>), it is used to refer
to "all available news groups".
The news URLs are unusual in that by themselves, they do not contain
sufficient information to locate a single resource, but, rather, are
location-independent.
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