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Also known as: article propagation
The spread of an article from the server it was injected on to that server's peers, and outward from them until it reaches most of the network. Well-connected servers see a new article within seconds; thinly peered ones lag or never receive it. Incomplete propagation is a routine cause of missing segments, since a release can be whole at one provider and short at another.
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