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. Further reading — version 1.2 of the GNKSA — version 2.0 of the GNKSA — a proposal for a similar Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval for Mail User Agents External links Official website (site dead, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160417105503/http://www.gnksa.org/gnksa.txt last archived version of the GNKSA rules) Usenet clients