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Also known as: NEXT, LAST
Move the current article pointer forward or backward one article within the selected group, returning the new number and Message-ID but no content. They date from the era of reading a group sequentially at a terminal, and text newsreaders still use them to walk through unread articles. Binary download clients ignore them entirely, addressing articles by Message-ID from an NZB.
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