Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval
- Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval
The Good NetKeeping Seal of Approval or GNKSA is a designation that indicates a piece of Usenet newsreader (client) software meets a set of usability and formatting standards. The name is a play on the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval", a set of consumer reports issued by Good Housekeeping Magazine.
The original GNKSA author thought that many newbies to Usenet posted malformed or inappropriately-sent articles because their software did not encourage better netiquette. For instance, software which made it easy to confuse "replying to a sender by email" with "posting a followup to a newsgroup" led to users mistakenly publishing what was intended to be a private response, or vice versa.
Some of the guidelines from GNKSA 2.0
*The user can see the essential header fields, including "Newsgroups" and "Followup-To".
*The user can edit all header fields when composing a follow up.
*There is a clear difference between 'followup' and 'reply'.
*Followups preserve the Subject and References of the original article, unless the user explicitly changes them.
*News software respects "Followup-To" and "Reply-To" specifications.
*What the user writes is what gets posted, as is.
Additional requirements concern accurate From: headers, signature block formatting, and the ability to cancel and supersede articles.
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard has proposed a similar [http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Proposals/gnksoa-mua.html Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval for Mail User Agents] .
External links
* [http://www.gnksa.org/ The Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval 2.0]
* [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/good-netkeeping-seal/ GNKSA at FAQs.org]
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