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A non-standard extension that returns the same overview data as XOVER, compressed with deflate before transmission. Header text compresses well, so a group whose overview runs to hundreds of megabytes may transfer in a fifth of that. It matters chiefly to indexers and to newsreaders building a local header index; support varies by provider and by server software.
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