# HG changeset patch # User bears # Date 1008166994 0 # Node ID af7afad923c18d207753ad0fde312cf78e33e891 [svn] Initial revision diff -r 000000000000 -r af7afad923c1 htdocs/index.html --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/htdocs/index.html Wed Dec 12 14:23:14 2001 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +<html> +<head> +<title>Noffle</title> +<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."> +<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="noffle, news server, news reader, offline, modem, dialup, linux, gnu/linux"> +</head> + +<body bgcolor="#f8f8f8" text="black" link="#0000ee" vlink="#551a8b" alink="#551a8b"> + +<h1>The Noffle News Server</h1> + +<hr> + +<ul> +<li> +<a href="#features">Features</a> +<li> +<a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a> +<li> +<a href="#getting">Getting Noffle</a> +<li> +<a href="#documentation">Documentation</a> +<li> +<a href="#links">Links</a> +</ul> + +<p> +<hr> +<p> + +<h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2> + +Noffle is a +<a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/">Usenet</a> +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 +<a href="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux </a> +operating system and freely available under +<a href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a>. +<p> +While Online: +<ul> +<li> +Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched +immediately from the remote server. +</ul> +<p> +While Offline: +<ul> +<li> +Allows reading news offline with many news clients, +even if they do not support offline reading by themselves. +<p> +<li> +Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode. +<ul> +<li> +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. +<li> +In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once. +<li> +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). +</ul> +<p> +<li> +The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling +Noffle in the ip-up script. +<p> +<li> +Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' +command or +automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically +removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time. +</ul> + +<h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></h2> + +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. +<p> +Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the +following from the news reader program: +<p> +<ul> +<li> +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. +<p> +<li> +The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically, +because it will mark them unwantedly for download. +</ul> + +<p> + + +<h2><a name="getting">Getting Noffle</a></h2> + +<p> +The latest releases of Noffle can be downloaded from the +<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1044"> +File List</a> of the +<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044"> +Noffle Project Page</a> at Sourceforge. +<br> +There is also +<a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044"> +CVS access to the current development version</a>. +</p> + +<p> +RPM packages are available from +<a href="http://www.bear-cave.org.uk/linux/noffle"> +Jim Hague's Noffle page</a>. +</p> + +<p> +Noffle is included in the +<a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian GNU/Linux</a> +distribution (the unstable "woody" tree), thanks to +<a href="mailto:paul@wurtel.demon.nl">Paul Slootman</a> for maintaining +the <a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/news/noffle.html"> +Noffle Debian Package</a>. +</p> + + +<h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> + +<p> +Read the files README and INSTALL from the package +for compiling and installing Noffle on your system. +</p> + +<p> +Users can talk to each other on the +<a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-users"> +Noffle-Users Mailing List</a>. +<br> +New releases and other important news are announced on the +<a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/noffle-announce"> +Noffle-Announce Mailing List</a>. +<br> +Bugs should be reported to the +<a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1044"> +Noffle Bug Tracker</a>. +</p> + +<h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2> + +<ul> +<li> +<a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">NNTP information</a> +<li> +<a href="http://www.leafnode.org/"> +Leafnode</a> - news server +<li> +<a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/juergen.haible/english.htm"> +Hamster</a> - news and mail server for Windows +<li> +<a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">SLRN</a> +- powerful news reader for Windows and Unix +<li> +<a href="http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html">WWWOFFLE</a> +- http proxy +</ul> + + +<p> +<hr> + +</body> +</html>