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.