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Also known as: IHAVE
The older way one server offers an article to another: it sends IHAVE with a Message-ID, waits for 335 or 435, and only then transfers the text. The wait after every offer makes it slow over long-latency links, since nothing else can be sent meanwhile. Modern feeds use the streaming pair CHECK and TAKETHIS instead, though IHAVE remains in the specification.
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