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3 <title>Noffle</title>
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4 <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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5 <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="noffle, news server, news reader, offline, modem, dialup, linux, gnu/linux">
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8 <body bgcolor="#f8f8f8" text="black" link="#0000ee" vlink="#551a8b" alink="#551a8b">
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10 <h1>The Noffle News Server</h1>
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11
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12 <hr>
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13
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14 <ul>
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15 <li>
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16 <a href="#features">Features</a>
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17 <li>
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18 <a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a>
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19 <li>
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20 <a href="#getting">Getting Noffle</a>
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21 <li>
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22 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
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23 <li>
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24 <a href="#links">Links</a>
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25 </ul>
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26
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27 <p>
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28 <hr>
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29 <p>
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31 <h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2>
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32
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33 Noffle is a
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34 <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/">Usenet</a>
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35 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections
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36 to the Internet.
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37 It acts as a server to news clients running on the
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38 local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server.
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39 Noffle is written for the
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40 <a href="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux </a>
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41 operating system and freely available under
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42 <a href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a>.
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43 <p>
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44 While Online:
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45 <ul>
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46 <li>
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47 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched
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48 immediately from the remote server.
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49 </ul>
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50 <p>
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51 While Offline:
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52 <ul>
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53 <li>
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54 Allows reading news offline with many news clients,
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55 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
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56 <p>
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57 <li>
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58 Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
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59 <ul>
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60 <li>
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61 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded
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62 yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo article body telling
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63 the human about this.
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64 <li>
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65 In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
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67 Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the
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68 whole thread for download (all later articles for some time
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69 that are referencing the original article).
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70 </ul>
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71 <p>
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73 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling
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74 Noffle in the ip-up script.
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75 <p>
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77 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle'
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78 command or
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79 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
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80 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
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81 </ul>
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83 <h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></h2>
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85 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader.
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86 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since Noffle already caches them
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87 and should be switched off.
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88 <p>
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89 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the
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90 following from the news reader program:
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91 <p>
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94 It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off),
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95 because the article bodies change from the pseudo body
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96 "marked for download" to the real body.
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99 The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically,
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100 because it will mark them unwantedly for download.
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101 </ul>
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106 <h2><a name="getting">Getting Noffle</a></h2>
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107
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108 <p>
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109 The latest releases of Noffle can be downloaded from the
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110 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1044">
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111 File List</a> of the
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112 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044">
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113 Noffle Project Page</a> at Sourceforge.
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114 <br>
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115 There is also
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116 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044">
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117 CVS access to the current development version</a>.
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118 </p>
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119
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120 <p>
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121 RPM packages are available from
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122 <a href="http://www.bear-cave.org.uk/linux/noffle">
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123 Jim Hague's Noffle page</a>.
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124 </p>
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127 Noffle is included in the
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128 <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian GNU/Linux</a>
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129 distribution (the unstable "woody" tree), thanks to
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130 <a href="mailto:paul@wurtel.demon.nl">Paul Slootman</a> for maintaining
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131 the <a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/news/noffle.html">
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132 Noffle Debian Package</a>.
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133 </p>
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136 <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
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137
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138 <p>
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139 Read the files README and INSTALL from the package
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140 for compiling and installing Noffle on your system.
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141 </p>
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143 <p>
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144 Users can talk to each other on the
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145 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-users">
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146 Noffle-Users Mailing List</a>.
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147 <br>
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148 New releases and other important news are announced on the
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149 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-announce">
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150 Noffle-Announce Mailing List</a>.
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151 <br>
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152 Bugs should be reported to the
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153 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1044">
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154 Noffle Bug Tracker</a>.
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155 </p>
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157 <h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2>
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161 <a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">NNTP information</a>
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162 <li>
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163 <a href="http://www.leafnode.org/">
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164 Leafnode</a> - news server
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166 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/juergen.haible/english.htm">
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167 Hamster</a> - news and mail server for Windows
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169 <a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">SLRN</a>
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170 - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix
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171 <li>
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172 <a href="http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html">WWWOFFLE</a>
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173 - http proxy
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174 </ul>
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