# HG changeset patch
# User bears
# Date 1008166994 0
# Node ID af7afad923c18d207753ad0fde312cf78e33e891
[svn] Initial revision
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+Noffle
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+The Noffle News Server
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+Noffle is a
+Usenet
+news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections
+to the Internet.
+It acts as a server to news clients running on the
+local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server.
+Noffle is written for the
+GNU/Linux
+operating system and freely available under
+GPL.
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+While Online:
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+Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched
+immediately from the remote server.
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+While Offline:
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+Allows reading news offline with many news clients,
+even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
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+Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
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+In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded
+yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo article body telling
+the human about this.
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+In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
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+Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the
+whole thread for download (all later articles for some time
+that are referencing the original article).
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+The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling
+Noffle in the ip-up script.
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+Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle'
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+automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
+removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
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+Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader.
+Caching of articles is unnecessary, since Noffle already caches them
+and should be switched off.
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+Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the
+following from the news reader program:
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+It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off),
+because the article bodies change from the pseudo body
+"marked for download" to the real body.
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+The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically,
+because it will mark them unwantedly for download.
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+The latest releases of Noffle can be downloaded from the
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+File List of the
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+Noffle Project Page at Sourceforge.
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+There is also
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+CVS access to the current development version.
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+RPM packages are available from
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+Jim Hague's Noffle page.
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+Noffle is included in the
+Debian GNU/Linux
+distribution (the unstable "woody" tree), thanks to
+Paul Slootman for maintaining
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+Noffle Debian Package.
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+Read the files README and INSTALL from the package
+for compiling and installing Noffle on your system.
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+Users can talk to each other on the
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+Noffle-Users Mailing List.
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+New releases and other important news are announced on the
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+Noffle-Announce Mailing List.
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+Bugs should be reported to the
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+Noffle Bug Tracker.
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