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Also known as: transit node
A news server whose job is moving articles between peers rather than serving readers. It accepts feeds by CHECK and TAKETHIS, deduplicates against its history file, and forwards to downstream sites, often keeping articles only long enough to pass them on. Providers run transit machines separately from reader machines so that a burst of incoming volume cannot slow customer downloads.
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