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Also known as: Subject header, Subject
The header giving an article its title, shown in group listings and used by readers to skim. On text groups it summarizes the message. On binary groups it does structural work instead, encoding the release name, the file name, and a part counter in a form such as [01/42], which is what indexers and newsreaders parse to group thousands of segments back into single files.
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