News Spool

Gnus Manual. Node: News Spool

6.2.2: News Spool

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.

Anyways, 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 path to the active file.
`nnspool-newsgroups-file`	The path to the group descriptions file.
`nnspool-history-file`	The path to the news history file.
`nnspool-active-times-file`	The path to 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.

NNTP

Getting News