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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.">
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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
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