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Also known as: group
A named channel that articles are posted to, written as dot-separated labels running from general to specific, such as comp.lang.c or alt.binaries.sounds.mp3. Each server decides independently which groups it carries and how long it keeps their articles. A group is not a folder on one machine; the same group exists on thousands of servers at once, each with its own article numbering and retention window.
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