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Also known as: control article
An ordinary article carrying a Control header that tells servers to act rather than merely file it. Defined actions include newgroup, rmgroup, checkgroups, and cancel. Every server decides for itself which control messages to obey and from which senders, so an rmgroup that deletes a group at one site may be logged and ignored at the next. Forgery concerns made manual review the norm.
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