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Also known as: post age
How long ago an article was posted, measured from its Date header and reported by indexers alongside each release. Age matters because completion falls as articles approach a server's retention limit, and because older sets have had more time to lose individual articles. A three-year-old release may need PAR2 repair; a three-day-old one usually downloads without incident.
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