Which News-fields are needed ?

I've got this minimalist OS with applications[oberon S3] which is too
good for me to swap for more standard systems. Wxx & linux are bloated
and lame by comparison.

The news reader just dumps each article to it's own text-frame,
with all the 'fields' that are usually hidden. Obviously this is inconvenient
to read. So I hacked a utility to remaove all the header fields except
the 3: From: , Newsgroups: , Subject: .

Now I'm cursed by Usegoup readers because 'I've broken the system'.
Understandably some field[s] are needed to 'keep track of the thread'.

Q - which one[s] is this ?
Ie. which fields may I remove before reposting ?

Q- what is the appropriate rcf ?

As I hate top-posters and the clowns who have decoded standard
ascii/iso of single and double into various/differnt coding, so too I
should not mess with working standards ?

Thanks for any input.

== Chris Glur.

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> Now I'm cursed by Usegoup readers because 'I've broken the system'.
> Understandably some field[s] are needed to 'keep track of the thread'.
>
> Q - which one[s] is this ?

The "References:" header is used to track message threads, and it's
mandatory in follow-up messages.

> Q- what is the appropriate rcf ?

RFC 1036 Standard for USENET Messages
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1036.txt

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