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Slashdot
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   Slashdot (`http://slashdot.org/') is a popular news site, with
lively discussion following the news articles.  `nnslashdot' will let
you read this forum in a convenient manner.

   The easiest way to read this source is to put something like the
following in your `.gnus.el' file:

     (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
           '((nnslashdot "")))

   This will make Gnus query the `nnslashdot' back end for new comments
and groups.  The `F' command will subscribe each new news article as a
new Gnus group, and you can read the comments by entering these groups.
(Note that the default subscription method is to subscribe new groups
as zombies.  Other methods are available (Note: Subscription Methods).

   If you want to remove an old `nnslashdot' group, the `G <DEL>'
command is the most handy tool (Note: Foreign Groups).

   When following up to `nnslashdot' comments (or posting new
comments), some light HTMLizations will be performed.  In particular,
text quoted with `> ' will be quoted with `blockquote' instead, and
signatures will have `br' added to the end of each line.  Other than
that, you can just write HTML directly into the message buffer.  Note
that Slashdot filters out some HTML forms.

   The following variables can be altered to change its behavior:

`nnslashdot-threaded'
     Whether `nnslashdot' should display threaded groups or not.  The
     default is `t'.  To be able to display threads, `nnslashdot' has
     to retrieve absolutely all comments in a group upon entry.  If a
     threaded display is not required, `nnslashdot' will only retrieve
     the comments that are actually wanted by the user.  Threading is
     nicer, but much, much slower than untreaded.

`nnslashdot-login-name'
     The login name to use when posting.

`nnslashdot-password'
     The password to use when posting.

`nnslashdot-directory'
     Where `nnslashdot' will store its files.  The default is
     `~/News/slashdot/'.

`nnslashdot-active-url'
     The URL format string that will be used to fetch the information on
     news articles and comments.  Default:
     `http://slashdot.org/search.pl?section=&min=%d'.

`nnslashdot-comments-url'
     The URL format string that will be used to fetch comments.  The
     default is
     `http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=%s&threshold=%d&commentsort=%d&mode=flat&startat=%d'.

`nnslashdot-article-url'
     The URL format string that will be used to fetch the news article.
     The default is
     `http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=%s&mode=nocomment'.

`nnslashdot-threshold'
     The score threshold.  The default is -1.

`nnslashdot-group-number'
     The number of old groups, in addition to the ten latest, to keep
     updated.  The default is 0.