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Also known as: From
The header carrying the poster's display name and address, formatted like an email From line. Nothing authenticates it, so the value is frequently forged or deliberately mangled with an unroutable address such as [email protected] to frustrate address harvesting. On binary groups the From value is usually a throwaway alias, which indexers record next to the release name as the poster of record.
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