The answer is simple. RFC 2980:
Each line of output will be formatted with the article number,
followed by each of the headers in the overview database or the
article itself (when the data is not available in the overview
database) for that article separated by a tab character.Where no data exists, a null field must be provided (i.e. the output will have two tab characters adjacent to each other).
Example: 111\tSubject\tUser\tDate\t111\t\t