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| 5 <title>Noffle</title> | |
| 6 <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."> | |
| 7 <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="noffle, news server, news reader, offline, modem, dialup, linux, gnu/linux"> | |
| 8 </head> | |
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| 12 <h1>The Noffle News Server</h1> | |
| 13 | |
| 14 <hr> | |
| 15 | |
| 16 <ul> | |
| 17 <li> | |
| 18 <a href="#features">Features</a> | |
| 19 <li> | |
| 20 <a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a> | |
| 21 <li> | |
| 22 <a href="#getting">Getting Noffle</a> | |
| 23 <li> | |
| 24 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a> | |
| 25 <li> | |
| 26 <a href="#links">Links</a> | |
| 27 </ul> | |
| 28 | |
| 29 <p> | |
| 30 <hr> | |
| 31 <p> | |
| 32 | |
| 33 <h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2> | |
| 34 | |
| 35 Noffle is a | |
| 36 <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/">Usenet</a> | |
| 37 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections | |
| 38 to the Internet. | |
| 39 It acts as a server to news clients running on the | |
| 40 local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server. | |
| 41 Noffle is written for the | |
| 42 <a href="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux </a> | |
| 43 operating system and freely available under | |
| 44 <a href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a>. | |
| 45 <p> | |
| 46 While Online: | |
| 47 <ul> | |
| 48 <li> | |
| 49 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched | |
| 50 immediately from the remote server. | |
| 51 </ul> | |
| 52 <p> | |
| 53 While Offline: | |
| 54 <ul> | |
| 55 <li> | |
| 56 Allows reading news offline with many news clients, | |
| 57 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves. | |
| 58 <p> | |
| 59 <li> | |
| 60 Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode. | |
| 61 <ul> | |
| 62 <li> | |
| 63 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded | |
| 64 yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo article body telling | |
| 65 the human about this. | |
| 66 <li> | |
| 67 In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once. | |
| 68 <li> | |
| 69 Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the | |
| 70 whole thread for download (all later articles for some time | |
| 71 that are referencing the original article). | |
| 72 </ul> | |
| 73 <p> | |
| 74 <li> | |
| 75 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling | |
| 76 Noffle in the ip-up script. | |
| 77 <p> | |
| 78 <li> | |
| 79 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' | |
| 80 command or | |
| 81 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically | |
| 82 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time. | |
| 83 </ul> | |
| 84 | |
| 85 <h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></h2> | |
| 86 | |
| 87 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader. | |
| 88 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since Noffle already caches them | |
| 89 and should be switched off. | |
| 90 <p> | |
| 91 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the | |
| 92 following from the news reader program: | |
| 93 <p> | |
| 94 <ul> | |
| 95 <li> | |
| 96 It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off), | |
| 97 because the article bodies change from the pseudo body | |
| 98 "marked for download" to the real body. | |
| 99 <p> | |
| 100 <li> | |
| 101 The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically, | |
| 102 because it will mark them unwantedly for download. | |
| 103 </ul> | |
| 104 | |
| 105 <p> | |
| 106 | |
| 107 | |
| 108 <h2><a name="getting">Getting Noffle</a></h2> | |
| 109 | |
| 110 <p> | |
| 111 The latest releases of Noffle can be downloaded from the | |
| 112 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1044"> | |
| 113 File List</a> of the | |
| 114 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044"> | |
| 115 Noffle Project Page</a> at Sourceforge. | |
| 116 <br> | |
| 117 There is also | |
| 118 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044"> | |
| 119 CVS access to the current development version</a>. | |
| 120 </p> | |
| 121 | |
| 122 <p> | |
| 123 RPM packages are available from | |
| 124 <a href="http://www.bear-cave.org.uk/linux/noffle"> | |
| 125 Jim Hague's Noffle page</a>. | |
| 126 </p> | |
| 127 | |
| 128 <p> | |
| 129 Noffle is included in the | |
| 130 <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian GNU/Linux</a> | |
| 131 distribution (the unstable "woody" tree), thanks to | |
| 132 <a href="mailto:paul@wurtel.demon.nl">Paul Slootman</a> for maintaining | |
| 133 the <a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/news/noffle.html"> | |
| 134 Noffle Debian Package</a>. | |
| 135 </p> | |
| 136 | |
| 137 | |
| 138 <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> | |
| 139 | |
| 140 <p> | |
| 141 Read the files README and INSTALL from the package | |
| 142 for compiling and installing Noffle on your system. | |
| 143 </p> | |
| 144 | |
| 145 <p> | |
| 146 Users can talk to each other on the | |
| 147 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-users"> | |
| 148 Noffle-Users Mailing List</a>. | |
| 149 <br> | |
| 150 New releases and other important news are announced on the | |
| 151 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-announce"> | |
| 152 Noffle-Announce Mailing List</a>. | |
| 153 <br> | |
| 154 Bugs should be reported to the | |
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155 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1044">Noffle Bug Tracker</a>. |
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| 157 | |
| 158 <h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2> | |
| 159 | |
| 160 <ul> | |
| 161 <li> | |
| 162 <a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">NNTP information</a> | |
| 163 <li> | |
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164 <a href="http://www.leafnode.org/">Leafnode</a> - news server |
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166 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/juergen.haible/english.htm">Hamster</a> |
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167 &em; news and mail server for Windows |
| 0 | 168 <li> |
| 169 <a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">SLRN</a> | |
| 170 - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix | |
| 171 <li> | |
| 172 <a href="http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html">WWWOFFLE</a> | |
| 173 - http proxy | |
| 174 </ul> | |
| 175 | |
| 176 | |
| 177 <p> | |
| 178 <hr> | |
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| 183 </html> |