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Also known as: message, posting
The unit of content on Usenet, equivalent to a single message. Each one carries a block of headers, a blank line, then a body, and is identified network-wide by its Message-ID. Articles move between servers as complete units and are never modified in transit apart from a few routing headers. A large binary upload is split across thousands of articles that a newsreader reassembles after download.
Browse all terms in Core Usenet Concepts, or see the full Usenet glossary.