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Also known as: MODE STREAM, streaming feed
A way of feeding articles between servers that removes the lockstep wait of IHAVE. The sender pipelines CHECK and TAKETHIS commands continuously and processes the replies as they arrive, keeping the link full even on a transatlantic path where each round trip costs 80 milliseconds or more. Every high-volume transit server negotiates it, usually via the MODE STREAM command.
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