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Subscribing to a foreign group from the local spool is extremely easy, and might be useful, for instance, to speed up reading groups that contain very big articles—‘alt.binaries.pictures.furniture’, for instance.
Anyway, you just specify nnspool
as the method and ""
(or
anything else) as the address.
If you have access to a local spool, you should probably use that as the
native select method (see Finding the News). It is normally faster
than using an nntp
select method, but might not be. It depends.
You just have to try to find out what’s best at your site.
nnspool-inews-program
Program used to post an article.
nnspool-inews-switches
Parameters given to the inews program when posting an article.
nnspool-spool-directory
Where nnspool
looks for the articles. This is normally
/usr/spool/news/.
nnspool-nov-directory
Where nnspool
will look for NOV files. This is normally
/usr/spool/news/over.view/.
nnspool-lib-dir
Where the news lib dir is (/usr/lib/news/ by default).
nnspool-active-file
The name of the active file.
nnspool-newsgroups-file
The name of the group descriptions file.
nnspool-history-file
The name of the news history file.
nnspool-active-times-file
The name of the active date file.
nnspool-nov-is-evil
If non-nil
, nnspool
won’t try to use any NOV files
that it finds.
nnspool-sift-nov-with-sed
If non-nil
, which is the default, use sed
to get the
relevant portion from the overview file. If nil
,
nnspool
will load the entire file into a buffer and process it
there.
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