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Also known as: news spool, article spool
The on-disk store where a news server keeps article text. Its size relative to the daily incoming feed sets retention: a backbone taking well over a hundred terabytes a day needs enormous storage to hold years of binaries. Articles are written by the feed process and read out on demand by ARTICLE and BODY, using a storage method such as CNFS or tradspool.
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