A news-article format is not an email.

Answer A news-article format is not an email. RFC 1036 describes an interchange format for USENET messages. The document is titled Standard for interchange of USENET messages. A news article is not a solo ad and not a subscriber. Interchange means systems passing articles among themselves. That is not one letter to someone else's list, and it is not permission to mail a commercial offer.

Cream stationery and a teal accent on a dark navy desk — A news format is not a commercial letter.

The note that started this: RFC 1036, Standard for interchange of USENET messages, RFC 1036.

The sample a seller shows is sometimes not the medium you will pay for. If you are about to buy solo ads, ask to see the email, not a news article. A post that circulated as news can carry a link and still not be the rented letter. The format is the tell. If the sample has the shape of a news article, you have not reviewed the solo. Approve the letter you are actually buying, or do not approve.

The document is a fact about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in. USENET messages are news articles in an interchange format. Readers of news are not, by that fact, people who asked for your offer. A seller who calls the article a solo is renaming a different object so it will fit the invoice.

What does RFC 1036 describe?

RFC 1036 describes an interchange format for USENET messages. The title is Standard for interchange of USENET messages. A news-article format is not an email.

In plain words, the document describes how USENET messages are formatted so systems can pass them along. A news article has a shape for that interchange. Email is a letter to a mailbox. The document does not turn one into the other. When a pitch says the format is close enough, it is asking you to ignore the difference you are paying for. Close enough is how a buyer reviews the wrong creative and thinks the job is done.

The failure shows up at approval. You approve words in a news article. The send, if it is a real solo, is an email to a list. Those are different objects, so approving one does not approve the other. Ask for the email creative as an email. Approve that copy. If the seller has no email to show, they are selling a news format, and you should not buy it as a solo.

The sample you approve is an email, not a news article.
A news format is not called a subscriber list.
Interchange between systems is not called a rented send.
The list, the domain, and the refund line are on the order.

Is a news article a solo ad or a subscriber?

No. A news article is not a solo ad and not a subscriber. A format for passing news between systems is not a person who asked for a commercial letter.

A solo ad is one letter sent to someone else's list. A subscriber is a person who asked to be on a list. A news article is a message in a news interchange format. It is neither of those. A person who reads news did not, by reading it, ask for an affiliate offer. Do not let a link inside an article stand in for that ask. The link proves the article had a link. It does not prove a list.

Sellers sometimes move a working news post into a pitch because the post exists and the letter does not. If you are selling, write the letter and name the list. The article can stay where it was published. Putting this document under a solo price does not convert the article into mail. Buyers should treat that conversion as a no and ask for the email instead.

What should you put on the order instead of a news format?

The list, the sending domain, and the refund line. The format is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in.

Put the list, the sending domain, and the refund line on the order. Describe the email you approved well enough that a different letter would be a mismatch. Do not describe the creative as the news article. If the refund line only covers the article, it covers the wrong object. Rewrite it before you pay. A refund about a news format will not help when the email was the thing that went out.

Check solo ad pricing against an email to a named list, not against a news-article format. RFC 1036 is an interchange format for USENET messages. A news article is not an email, not a solo ad, and not a subscriber.