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- NNTP
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- With NOV it is possible to compile NN as a pure NNTP client. The default
- NNTP server is defined in /usr/lib/nntp_server, this can be overridden
- by setting the NNTPSERVER environment variable. If the NNTP server is
- set to the local host reading is done by accessing the files directory.
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- If NNTP is being used over a slow line it is possible to speed up
- initialization by setting the NN variable new-group-action to less
- than 3 to stop active.times being read and setting show-purpose-mode
- to 0 to stop newsgroups being read.
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- If even faster startup is required the -A command option will stop NN
- reading the active file via NNTP but it will instead use the .newsrc
- file to provide a list of newsgroups, this is the equivalent of
- setting the dont-read-active variable. The dont-do-new-groups)
- variable speeds things up slightly by ignoring new groups. In this mode
- information about a number of groups is read at once, the variable
- nntp-group-readahead controls how many groups this information
- is read for (if it is set to a too high value, say 1000, it is counter
- productive and may cause problems). The number of unread articles for
- groups that have not been read ahead is not displayed.
-
- It may also help to set keep-unsubscribed to false which will
- remove unsubscribed groups from the .newsrc
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- The -R parameter can be used to specify the NNTP server, the -D
- parameter also specifies the NNTP server but as well causes the
- status files like .newsrc to be created specific to that server
- so that its possible to easily use multiple NNTP servers.
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