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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 (Note: 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.