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+<title>Noffle</title>
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+<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>
+
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