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[svn] * TODO,src/client.c,src/client.h,src/fetch.c,src/fetch.h,src/noffle.c: Improve error checking during fetches. A fetch is now aborted immediately if the connection times out or if an unexpected response arrives. This should fix problems with articles appearing in the wrong group, and possibly other mysterious happenings.
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date Wed, 09 May 2001 12:33:43 +0100
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1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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2 The Noffle News Server
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5 Features
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8 Noffle is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up
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9 connections to the Internet. It acts as a server to news clients running on
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10 the local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote
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11 server. Noffle is written for the GNU/Linux operating system and freely
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12 available under the terms of the GPL. See COPYING for details.
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14 While Online:
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16 * Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched immediately from
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17 the remote server.
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21 * Allows reading news offline with many news clients, even if they do not
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22 support offline reading by themselves.
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24 * Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
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25 * In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely
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26 downloaded yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo
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27 article body telling the human about this.
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28 * In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
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29 * Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the whole
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30 thread for download (all later articles for some time that are
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31 referencing the original article).
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33 * The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling Noffle
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34 in the ip-up script.
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36 * Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' command or
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37 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
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38 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
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40 * Noffle also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted in
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41 local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately,
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42 and are expired in the same way as other articles.
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45 Compatibility with News Clients
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48 See docs/NOTES for information about news client software.
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51 Getting Noffle
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54 The current stable release is: none
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56 The current development release is: 1.0pre5
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58 The Noffle homepage is at:
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60 http://noffle.sourceforge.net/
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62 Official releases can be downloaded at the File Releases section
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63 of the Noffle project page:
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65 http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044
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67 The latest development snapshot is available via CVS at:
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73 ------------
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75 Read INSTALL for information about compiling and installing Noffle.
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78 Documentation
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81 Read the files in the subdirectory docs/ and the manual pages
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82 noffle(1) and noffle.conf(5) for more information on Noffle.
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84 There is a noffle-users mailing list at SourceForge:
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88 Bugs should be submitted here:
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93 Acknowledgements
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96 The wildmat newsgroup pattern matching software used by Noffle was developed
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97 by Rich Salz, and is distributed with INN v2.2.