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| 5 <title>Noffle</title> | |
| 2 | 6 <META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> |
| 0 | 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."> |
| 8 <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="noffle, news server, news reader, offline, modem, dialup, linux, gnu/linux"> | |
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| 13 <h1>The Noffle News Server</h1> | |
| 14 | |
| 15 <hr> | |
| 16 | |
| 17 <ul> | |
| 18 <li> | |
| 19 <a href="#features">Features</a> | |
| 20 <li> | |
| 21 <a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a> | |
| 22 <li> | |
| 23 <a href="#getting">Getting Noffle</a> | |
| 24 <li> | |
| 25 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a> | |
| 26 <li> | |
| 27 <a href="#links">Links</a> | |
| 28 </ul> | |
| 29 | |
| 30 <p> | |
| 31 <hr> | |
| 32 <p> | |
| 33 | |
| 34 <h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2> | |
| 35 | |
| 36 Noffle is a | |
| 37 <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/">Usenet</a> | |
| 38 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections | |
| 39 to the Internet. | |
| 40 It acts as a server to news clients running on the | |
| 41 local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server. | |
| 42 Noffle is written for the | |
| 43 <a href="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux </a> | |
| 44 operating system and freely available under | |
| 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.) |
| 0 | 48 <p> |
| 49 While Online: | |
| 50 <ul> | |
| 51 <li> | |
| 52 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched | |
| 53 immediately from the remote server. | |
| 54 </ul> | |
| 55 <p> | |
| 56 While Offline: | |
| 57 <ul> | |
| 58 <li> | |
| 59 Allows reading news offline with many news clients, | |
| 60 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves. | |
| 61 <p> | |
| 62 <li> | |
| 63 Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode. | |
| 64 <ul> | |
| 65 <li> | |
| 66 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded | |
| 67 yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo article body telling | |
| 68 the human about this. | |
| 69 <li> | |
| 70 In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once. | |
| 71 <li> | |
| 72 Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the | |
| 73 whole thread for download (all later articles for some time | |
| 74 that are referencing the original article). | |
| 75 </ul> | |
| 76 <p> | |
| 77 <li> | |
| 78 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling | |
| 79 Noffle in the ip-up script. | |
| 80 <p> | |
| 81 <li> | |
| 82 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' | |
| 83 command or | |
| 84 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically | |
| 85 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time. | |
| 86 </ul> | |
| 87 | |
| 88 <h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></h2> | |
| 89 | |
| 90 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader. | |
| 91 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since Noffle already caches them | |
| 92 and should be switched off. | |
| 93 <p> | |
| 94 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the | |
| 95 following from the news reader program: | |
| 96 <p> | |
| 97 <ul> | |
| 98 <li> | |
| 99 It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off), | |
| 100 because the article bodies change from the pseudo body | |
| 101 "marked for download" to the real body. | |
| 102 <p> | |
| 103 <li> | |
| 104 The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically, | |
| 105 because it will mark them unwantedly for download. | |
| 106 </ul> | |
| 107 | |
| 108 <p> | |
| 109 | |
| 110 | |
| 111 <h2><a name="getting">Getting Noffle</a></h2> | |
| 112 | |
| 113 <p> | |
| 114 The latest releases of Noffle can be downloaded from the | |
| 115 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1044"> | |
| 116 File List</a> of the | |
| 117 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044"> | |
| 118 Noffle Project Page</a> at Sourceforge. | |
| 119 <br> | |
| 120 There is also | |
| 121 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044"> | |
| 122 CVS access to the current development version</a>. | |
| 123 </p> | |
| 124 | |
| 125 <p> | |
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126 Some old RPM packages are available from |
| 0 | 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>. |
| 0 | 130 </p> |
| 131 | |
| 132 <p> | |
| 133 Noffle is included in the | |
| 134 <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian GNU/Linux</a> | |
| 2 | 135 distribution, thanks to |
| 136 <a href="mailto:paul@wurtel.demon.nl">Paul Slootman</a> and | |
| 137 <a href="mailto:martin@godisch.de">Martin Godisch</a> for maintaining | |
| 138 the <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/news/noffle.html" | |
| 139 >Noffle Debian Package</a>. | |
| 0 | 140 </p> |
| 141 | |
| 142 | |
| 143 <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> | |
| 144 | |
| 145 <p> | |
| 146 Read the files README and INSTALL from the package | |
| 147 for compiling and installing Noffle on your system. | |
| 148 </p> | |
| 149 | |
| 150 <p> | |
| 151 Users can talk to each other on the | |
| 152 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-users"> | |
| 153 Noffle-Users Mailing List</a>. | |
| 154 <br> | |
| 155 New releases and other important news are announced on the | |
| 156 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-announce"> | |
| 157 Noffle-Announce Mailing List</a>. | |
| 158 <br> | |
| 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>. |
| 0 | 161 </p> |
| 162 | |
| 163 <h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2> | |
| 164 | |
| 165 <ul> | |
| 166 <li> | |
| 167 <a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">NNTP information</a> | |
| 168 <li> | |
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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> |
| 2 | 172 - news and mail server for Windows |
| 0 | 173 <li> |
| 174 <a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">SLRN</a> | |
| 175 - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix | |
| 176 <li> | |
| 177 <a href="http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html">WWWOFFLE</a> | |
| 178 - http proxy | |
| 179 </ul> | |
| 180 | |
| 181 | |
| 182 <p> | |
| 183 <hr> | |
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186 width="88" height="31" border="0" alt="SourceForge Logo"> </A> |
| 0 | 187 </body> |
| 188 </html> |