For review: message/news is obsolete

[Frank Ellermann]

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