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Also known as: segment count, number of articles
The number of articles making up a post or a whole release. NZB files state it implicitly through their segment lists, and indexers display it next to size. The figure sets how many separate NNTP fetches a download needs, so a large release running to tens of thousands of articles benefits from more concurrent connections. It also indicates how much a set can lose before repair fails.
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