Hi, message/news was registered about 14 years ago by Henry Specer in conjunction with "son-of-1036", a draft introducing MIME in NetNews. Meanwhile the IETF USEFOR WG produced a grandson-of-1036 (an approved RFC waiting for its number). A companion memo addresses technical issues, and among other things it will formally deprecate message/news. Informally RFC 2046 section 5.2.1 did this years ago by stating that message/rfc822 can be also used for News. What you see below is a proposed template that could be submitted to IANA when this memo (RFCXXXX) is approved: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-usefor-usepro> : MIME type name: message : MIME subtype name: news : Required parameters: none : Optional parameters: charset, compare message/rfc822 : Encoding considerations: compare message/rfc822 (RFC 2046) : Security considerations: OBSOLETE, use message/rfc822 : Interoperability considerations: : Rarely used; and therefore often : handled as application/octet-stream : Published specification: son-of-1036, RFCXXXX : Applications that use this media type: : Some old mail and news user agents : Intended usage: OBSOLETE : Author: Henry Spencer : Change controller: IETF Frank