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Also known as: OVER
The standardized form of XOVER, defined in RFC 3977. Given a range of article numbers or a Message-ID, it returns one tab-separated line per article containing the overview fields the server maintains. Indexers and header-downloading clients depend on it: fetching overview lines for a binary group costs a fraction of what fetching the articles themselves would.
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