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7 <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Noffle is a news server for Linux that is optimized for low speed dialup connections to the Internet and few users. It can be used to add offline reading capability to news readers.">
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13 <h1>The Noffle News Server</h1>
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19 <a href="#features">Features</a>
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21 <a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a>
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23 <a href="#getting">Getting Noffle</a>
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25 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
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27 <a href="#links">Links</a>
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36 Noffle is a
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37 <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/">Usenet</a>
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38 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections
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39 to the Internet.
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40 It acts as a server to news clients running on the
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41 local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server.
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42 Noffle is written for the
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43 <a href="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux </a>
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44 operating system and freely available under
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45 <a href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a>.
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46 (Recent versions of Noffle have been built on other Unix systems,
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47 but not tested.)
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52 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched
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53 immediately from the remote server.
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59 Allows reading news offline with many news clients,
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60 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
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63 Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
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66 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded
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67 yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo article body telling
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68 the human about this.
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69 <li>
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70 In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
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72 Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the
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73 whole thread for download (all later articles for some time
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74 that are referencing the original article).
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78 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling
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79 Noffle in the ip-up script.
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82 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle'
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83 command or
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84 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
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85 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
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88 <h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></h2>
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90 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader.
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91 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since Noffle already caches them
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92 and should be switched off.
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94 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the
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95 following from the news reader program:
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99 It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off),
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100 because the article bodies change from the pseudo body
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104 The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically,
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105 because it will mark them unwantedly for download.
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113 <p>
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114 The latest releases of Noffle can be downloaded from the
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115 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1044">
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116 File List</a> of the
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122 CVS access to the current development version</a>.
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126 Some old RPM packages are available from
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127 <a href="http://www.bear-cave.org.uk/linux/noffle">
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128 Jim Hague's Noffle page</a>. Noffle has also been packaged
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129 for <a href="http://www.mandrake.org">Linux Mandrake</a>.
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133 Noffle is included in the
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134 <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian GNU/Linux</a>
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135 distribution, thanks to
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136 <a href="mailto:paul@wurtel.demon.nl">Paul Slootman</a> and
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137 <a href="mailto:martin@godisch.de">Martin Godisch</a> for maintaining
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138 the <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/news/noffle.html"
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139 >Noffle Debian Package</a>.
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146 Read the files README and INSTALL from the package
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147 for compiling and installing Noffle on your system.
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151 Users can talk to each other on the
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153 Noffle-Users Mailing List</a>.
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155 New releases and other important news are announced on the
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159 Bugs should be reported to the
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160 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1044">Noffle Bug Tracker</a>.
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163 <h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2>
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167 <a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">NNTP information</a>
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169 <a href="http://www.leafnode.org/">Leafnode</a> - news server
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171 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/juergen.haible/english.htm">Hamster</a>
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172 - news and mail server for Windows
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175 - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix
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185 <IMG src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=1044&amp;type=1"
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