gnus: News Spool
6.2.2 News Spool
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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 (
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.
Info Catalog
gnus: NNTP
gnus: Getting News