Alas! David Champion spake thus:
> > Which manual? The man page for the muttrc just says that "%g expands to
> > the newsgroup if mutt is compiled with nntp support", there is nothing
> > else about nntp in there.
> 
> The mutt man page shows:
>      -G   Start Mutt with a listing of subscribed newsgroups.

$ mutt -G
mutt: invalid option -- G
Mutt 1.3.25i (2002-01-01)
usage: mutt [ -nRyzZ ] [ -e <cmd> ] [ -F <file> ] [ -m <type> ] [ -f <file> ]
       mutt [ -nx ] [ -e <cmd> ] [ -a <file> ] [ -F <file> ] [ -H <file> ] [ -i <file> 
] [ -s <subj> ] [ -b <addr> ] [ -c <addr> ] <addr> [ ... ]
       mutt [ -n ] [ -e <cmd> ] [ -F <file> ] -p
       mutt -v[v]

options:
...
  -g <server>   specify a newsserver (if compiled with NNTP)
  -G            select a newsgroup (if compiled with NNTP)
...

Very bloody funny.

Mutt 1.3.25i (2002-01-01)
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vvv.nntp

> The manual (manual.txt) shows NNTP information in section 2.7, 3.18, and
> in several 6.3.x sections concerning variables containing "nntp" and
> "news" in their names. 6.3.106 talks about the URL-like syntax supported
> as a folder naming syntax:
>       nntp[s]://news.server.name/news.group.name

I'm about to read the manual.txt. It seems to have some relevant stuff
in it.

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