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An open-source news server built for transit rather than reading, originally by Matt Dillon in the 1990s. It concentrates on accepting and forwarding enormous article volumes with modest hardware, splitting feeding and reader duties across separate processes and machines. Several commercial backbones grew up around it. Its reader side exists but is less capable than the transit side it was designed for.
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