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following variables affect the behavior of all, or several of
the pre-made connection functions. When not specified, all
functions are affected (the values of the following variables
will be used as the default if each virtual nntp server doesn’t
specify those server variables individually).   A command
wrapper to use when connecting through a non native connection
function (all except nntp-open-network-stream, nntp-open-tls-
stream, and nntp-open-ssl-stream). This is where you would put a
‘SOCKS’ wrapper for instance.   The address of the NNTP server.
Port number to connect to the NNTP server. The default is
‘nntp’. If you use NNTP over TLS/SSL, you may want to use
integer ports rather than named ports (i.e., use ‘563’ instead
of ‘snews’ or ‘nntps’), because external TLS/SSL tools may not
work with named ports.   String to use as end-of-line marker
when talking to the NNTP server. This is ‘\r\n’ by default, but
should be ‘\n’ when using a non na