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What an article's headers disclose about its author. From, Organization, User-Agent, a Date carrying a time zone, and the injecting site recorded in Path each narrow an identity, and Message-ID formats have historically leaked hostnames or precise timestamps. Servers rewrite or append headers during injection, so a poster never fully controls the set that eventually propagates across the network.
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