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### 3.5 `news`, `nntp` and `snews`

The network news URL scheme take the following forms following RFC 1738 except that for compatibility with other clients, host and port fields may be included in news URLs though they are properly only allowed for nntp an snews.

‘`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.

‘`:port`’ is optional and defaults to :119.

‘`snews`’ is the same as ‘`nntp`’ except that the default port is :563. (It is tunneled through SSL.)

An ‘`nntp`’ URL is the same as a news URL, except that the URL may specify an article by its number.

— User Option: url-news-server

> This variable can be used to override the default news server. Usually this will be set by the Gnus package, which is used to fetch news. It may be set from the conventional environment variable `NNTPSERVER`.