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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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5 <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="noffle, news server, news reader, offline, modem, dialup, linux"> |
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12 <h1>The NOFFLE News Server</h1> | |
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21 <a href="#features">Features</a> |
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22 <li> |
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23 <a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a> |
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24 <li> |
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25 <a href="#getting">Getting NOFFLE</a> |
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26 <li> |
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27 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a> |
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28 <li> |
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29 <a href="#links">Links</a> |
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30 </ul> |
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32 <p> |
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36 <h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2> |
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38 NOFFLE is a | |
39 <a href=http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=usenet>Usenet</a> | |
40 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections | |
41 to the Internet. | |
42 It acts as a server to news clients running on the | |
43 local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server. | |
44 NOFFLE is written for the | |
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45 <a href=http://www.linux.org/>Linux </a> |
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46 operating system and freely available under |
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47 <a href=http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html>GPL</a>. |
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49 While Online: | |
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52 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched | |
53 immediately from the remote server. | |
54 </ul> | |
55 <p> | |
56 While Offline: | |
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59 Allows reading news offline with many news clients, | |
60 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves. | |
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63 Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode. |
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66 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded | |
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67 yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo article body telling |
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71 In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once. |
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74 Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the |
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75 whole thread for download (all later articles for some time |
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76 that are referencing the original article). |
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81 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling | |
82 NOFFLE in the ip-up script. | |
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85 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' | |
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86 command or |
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87 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically |
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88 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time. |
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91 NOFFLE also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted |
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92 in local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately, |
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93 and are expired in the same way as other articles. |
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97 <h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></h2> |
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99 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader. | |
100 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them | |
101 and should be switched off. | |
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103 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the |
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104 following from the news reader program: |
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108 It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off), |
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109 because the article bodies change from the pseudo body |
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110 "marked for download" to the real body. |
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113 The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically, |
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114 because it will mark them unwantedly for download. |
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119 <h2><a name="getting">Getting NOFFLE</a></h2> |
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121 NOFFLE can be downloaded from this web site. |
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123 <tt><a href=./noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz>noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz</a></tt> |
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124 (current release, 18 Apr 2000) |
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126 <tt><a href=./noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz>noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz</a></tt> |
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127 (current release, 13 Nov 1999) |
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129 RPM packages have been created by |
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130 <a href="mailto:moderm@gmx.net">Mario Moder</a>. They are available |
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133 <tt><a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a></tt> |
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137 <img src="img_new.gif" width="32" height="16" alt="[NEW]"> |
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138 I moved Noffle to |
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139 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</a> |
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140 recently. You can download files from the |
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141 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044">Noffle project page</a>. |
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142 There is also a mailing list and a discussion forum. |
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144 <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> |
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146 Read the files README and INSTALL from the package |
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147 for compiling and installing NOFFLE on your system. |
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149 Some German documentation |
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150 (<img src="img_german.gif" width="16" height="14" alt="[Deutsch]"> |
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151 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/klaus.moedinger/noffle_install_de.html">"NOFFLE Installation"</a>) |
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152 is provided by |
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153 <a href="mailto:klaus.moedinger@t-online.de">Klaus Mödinger</a>. |
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157 <a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de"> |
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158 markus.enzenberger@t-online.de</a>. |
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167 <a href="http://www.privat.kkf.net/~mark.bulmahn/ncontr.html">ncontr</a> |
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168 - graphical front-end for NOFFLE by |
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169 <a href="mailto:mbu@privat.kkf.net">Mark Bulmahn</a> |
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172 Leafnode</a> - news server similar to NOFFLE |
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174 <a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">SLRN</a> |
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175 - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix |
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177 <a href="http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html">WWWOFFLE</a> |
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