Kai Henningsen wrote:
(And, of course, 1036 did _not_ use the Internet text message format, it
defined its own that looked similar but had lots of important
differences.)
You may wish to review RFC 1036 section 2, specifically:
Therefore, the rule is adopted that
all USENET news messages must be formatted as valid Internet mail
messages, according to the Internet standard RFC-822. The USENET
News standard is more restrictive than the Internet standard,
placing additional requirements on each message and forbidding use
of certain Internet features. However, it should always be possible
to use a tool expecting an Internet message to process a news
message. In any situation where this standard conflicts with the
Internet standard, RFC-822 should be considered correct and this
standard in error.