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#### 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.

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 (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 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.

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