url: news/nntp/snews
4.5 ‘news’, ‘nntp’ and ‘snews’
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The ‘news’, ‘nntp’, and ‘snews’ schemes, defined in RFC 1738, are used
for reading Usenet newsgroups. For compatibility with
non-standard-compliant news clients, the ‘url’ library allows host and
port fields to be included in ‘news’ URLs, even though they are properly
only allowed for ‘nntp’ and ‘snews’.
‘news’ and ‘nntp’ URLs have the following form:
‘news:NEWSGROUP’
Retrieves a list of messages in NEWSGROUP;
‘news:MESSAGE-ID’
Retrieves the message with the given MESSAGE-ID;
‘news:*’
Retrieves a list of all available newsgroups;
‘nntp://HOST:PORT/NEWSGROUP’
‘nntp://HOST:PORT/MESSAGE-ID’
‘nntp://HOST:PORT/*’
Similar to the ‘news’ versions.
The default port for ‘nntp’ (and ‘news’) is 119. The difference
between an ‘nntp’ URL and a ‘news’ URL is that an ‘nttp’ URL may specify
an article by its number. The ‘snews’ scheme is the same as ‘nntp’,
except that it is tunneled through SSL and has default port 563.
These URLs are retrieved via the Gnus package.
-- User Option: url-news-server
This variable specifies the default news server from which to fetch
news, if no server was specified in the URL. The default value,
‘nil’, means to use the server specified by the standard
environment variable ‘NNTPSERVER’, or ‘news’ if that environment
variable is unset.
Info Catalog
url: mailto
url: Supported URL Types
url: rlogin/telnet/tn3270