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Also known as: news session
Everything that happens on one connection from the server's greeting to QUIT. A typical reading session runs: 200 greeting, CAPABILITIES, AUTHINFO USER and PASS, GROUP to select a newsgroup, then a long run of ARTICLE or BODY requests. State such as the selected group and the current article pointer lives only inside the session and is lost when it closes.
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