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Also known as: Distribution
A header limiting how widely an article should travel, using a keyword such as local or a regional code. Servers that honor it decline to pass the article beyond the named scope, which suited classified ads, campus notices, and other content of no interest further out. Support has always been patchy and many servers ignore the header, so it is seldom relied on today.
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