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Also known as: regional groups, local hierarchy
A hierarchy scoped to a country, language, state, city, or single organization: de.* for German-language groups, uk.* for Britain, or a university's internal tree. Servers outside the region routinely decline to carry these branches, so limited propagation is the intent rather than a fault. Each regional hierarchy sets its own creation rules, and several remain busier than their Big 8 counterparts.
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