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Also known as: attachment
A non-text file carried inside an article, encoded so it survives a protocol that expects printable characters. On the modern binary groups this means yEnc data in the article body; in text groups where attachments are unwelcome, a small MIME or uuencoded attachment occasionally appears. Servers that carry text groups only will often strip or refuse articles above a size threshold.
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