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Also known as: reader node
The machine customers actually connect to, running the commands a newsreader sends: GROUP, OVER, ARTICLE, BODY and AUTHINFO. It authenticates accounts, enforces the connection limit, and pulls article text from the spool or from a storage tier behind it. Providers scale readers horizontally behind round-robin DNS, keeping them separate from the transit servers that take the incoming feed.
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