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Also known as: Organization
An optional header naming the poster's employer, university, or service provider. Newsreaders usually fill it from server configuration, which is why articles injected through one provider tend to share an identical Organization string. It performs no technical function and is purely descriptive, though it once gave a rough hint of where a poster was connecting from. Plenty of modern clients omit it.
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