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Also known as: NNTP connection
A single TCP session between a client and a news server, carrying one NNTP command stream. Because each connection fetches articles serially, download speed scales with how many run at once, up to the account's allowed limit and the available bandwidth. Clients open them at startup, authenticate each with AUTHINFO, and reuse them across thousands of article requests.
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