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+ − 3 <title>Noffle</title>
+ − 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.">
+ − 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">
+ − 9
+ − 10 <h1>The Noffle News Server</h1>
+ − 11
+ − 12 <hr>
+ − 13
+ − 14 <ul>
+ − 15 <li>
+ − 16 <a href="#features">Features</a>
+ − 17 <li>
+ − 18 <a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a>
+ − 19 <li>
+ − 20 <a href="#getting">Getting Noffle</a>
+ − 21 <li>
+ − 22 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
+ − 23 <li>
+ − 24 <a href="#links">Links</a>
+ − 25 </ul>
+ − 26
+ − 27 <p>
+ − 28 <hr>
+ − 29 <p>
+ − 30
+ − 31 <h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2>
+ − 32
+ − 33 Noffle is a
+ − 34 <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/">Usenet</a>
+ − 35 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections
+ − 36 to the Internet.
+ − 37 It acts as a server to news clients running on the
+ − 38 local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server.
+ − 39 Noffle is written for the
+ − 40 <a href="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux </a>
+ − 41 operating system and freely available under
+ − 42 <a href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a>.
+ − 43 <p>
+ − 44 While Online:
+ − 45 <ul>
+ − 46 <li>
+ − 47 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched
+ − 48 immediately from the remote server.
+ − 49 </ul>
+ − 50 <p>
+ − 51 While Offline:
+ − 52 <ul>
+ − 53 <li>
+ − 54 Allows reading news offline with many news clients,
+ − 55 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
+ − 56 <p>
+ − 57 <li>
+ − 58 Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
+ − 59 <ul>
+ − 60 <li>
+ − 61 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded
+ − 62 yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo article body telling
+ − 63 the human about this.
+ − 64 <li>
+ − 65 In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
+ − 66 <li>
+ − 67 Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the
+ − 68 whole thread for download (all later articles for some time
+ − 69 that are referencing the original article).
+ − 70 </ul>
+ − 71 <p>
+ − 72 <li>
+ − 73 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling
+ − 74 Noffle in the ip-up script.
+ − 75 <p>
+ − 76 <li>
+ − 77 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle'
+ − 78 command or
+ − 79 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
+ − 80 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
+ − 81 </ul>
+ − 82
+ − 83 <h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></h2>
+ − 84
+ − 85 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader.
+ − 86 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since Noffle already caches them
+ − 87 and should be switched off.
+ − 88 <p>
+ − 89 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the
+ − 90 following from the news reader program:
+ − 91 <p>
+ − 92 <ul>
+ − 93 <li>
+ − 94 It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off),
+ − 95 because the article bodies change from the pseudo body
+ − 96 "marked for download" to the real body.
+ − 97 <p>
+ − 98 <li>
+ − 99 The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically,
+ − 100 because it will mark them unwantedly for download.
+ − 101 </ul>
+ − 102
+ − 103 <p>
+ − 104
+ − 105
+ − 106 <h2><a name="getting">Getting Noffle</a></h2>
+ − 107
+ − 108 <p>
+ − 109 The latest releases of Noffle can be downloaded from the
+ − 110 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1044">
+ − 111 File List</a> of the
+ − 112 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044">
+ − 113 Noffle Project Page</a> at Sourceforge.
+ − 114 <br>
+ − 115 There is also
+ − 116 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044">
+ − 117 CVS access to the current development version</a>.
+ − 118 </p>
+ − 119
+ − 120 <p>
+ − 121 RPM packages are available from
+ − 122 <a href="http://www.bear-cave.org.uk/linux/noffle">
+ − 123 Jim Hague's Noffle page</a>.
+ − 124 </p>
+ − 125
+ − 126 <p>
+ − 127 Noffle is included in the
+ − 128 <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian GNU/Linux</a>
+ − 129 distribution (the unstable "woody" tree), thanks to
+ − 130 <a href="mailto:paul@wurtel.demon.nl">Paul Slootman</a> for maintaining
+ − 131 the <a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/news/noffle.html">
+ − 132 Noffle Debian Package</a>.
+ − 133 </p>
+ − 134
+ − 135
+ − 136 <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
+ − 137
+ − 138 <p>
+ − 139 Read the files README and INSTALL from the package
+ − 140 for compiling and installing Noffle on your system.
+ − 141 </p>
+ − 142
+ − 143 <p>
+ − 144 Users can talk to each other on the
+ − 145 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-users">
+ − 146 Noffle-Users Mailing List</a>.
+ − 147 <br>
+ − 148 New releases and other important news are announced on the
+ − 149 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-announce">
+ − 150 Noffle-Announce Mailing List</a>.
+ − 151 <br>
+ − 152 Bugs should be reported to the
+ − 153 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1044">
+ − 154 Noffle Bug Tracker</a>.
+ − 155 </p>
+ − 156
+ − 157 <h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2>
+ − 158
+ − 159 <ul>
+ − 160 <li>
+ − 161 <a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">NNTP information</a>
+ − 162 <li>
+ − 163 <a href="http://www.leafnode.org/">
+ − 164 Leafnode</a> - news server
+ − 165 <li>
+ − 166 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/juergen.haible/english.htm">
+ − 167 Hamster</a> - news and mail server for Windows
+ − 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>
+ − 179
+ − 180 </body>
+ − 181 </html>
