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- Fixed problem with article numbering if the overview file empties.
- Changed %i to %d in sscanfs (%i interprets leading zeros as octal numbers)
- New groups now always start numbering at article 1.
- Record newsgroup posting status. Enforce it at posting time.
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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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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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29 <a href="#links">Links</a> |
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31 <a href="#acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a> | |
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40 NOFFLE is a | |
41 <a href=http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=usenet>Usenet</a> | |
42 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections | |
43 to the Internet. | |
44 It acts as a server to news clients running on the | |
45 local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server. | |
46 NOFFLE is written for the | |
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47 <a href=http://www.linux.org/>Linux </a> |
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48 operating system and freely available under |
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49 <a href=http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html>GPL</a>. |
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51 While Online: | |
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54 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched | |
55 immediately from the remote server. | |
56 </ul> | |
57 <p> | |
58 While Offline: | |
59 <ul> | |
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61 Allows reading news offline with many news clients, | |
62 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves. | |
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65 Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode. |
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68 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded | |
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69 yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo article body telling |
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73 In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once. |
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76 Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the |
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77 whole thread for download (all later articles for some time |
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78 that are referencing the original article). |
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83 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling | |
84 NOFFLE in the ip-up script. | |
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87 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' | |
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89 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically |
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90 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time. |
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93 NOFFLE also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted |
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94 in local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately, |
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95 and are expired in the same way as other articles. |
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99 <h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></h2> |
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101 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader. | |
102 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them | |
103 and should be switched off. | |
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105 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the |
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106 following from the news reader program: |
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110 It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off), |
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111 because the article bodies change from the pseudo body |
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112 "marked for download" to the real body. |
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115 The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically, |
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116 because it will mark them unwantedly for download. |
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123 NOFFLE can be downloaded from this web site. |
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125 <tt><a href=./noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz>noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz</a></tt> |
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126 (current release, 18 Apr 2000) |
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128 <tt><a href=./noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz>noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz</a></tt> |
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129 (current release, 13 Nov 1999) |
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131 RPM packages have been created by |
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132 <a href="mailto:moderm@gmx.net">Mario Moder</a>. They are available |
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135 <tt><a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a></tt> |
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139 <img src="img_new.gif" width="32" height="16" alt="[NEW]"> |
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140 I moved Noffle to |
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141 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</a> |
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142 recently. You can download files from the |
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143 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044">Noffle project page</a>. |
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144 There is also a mailing list and a discussion forum. |
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146 <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> |
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148 Read the files README and INSTALL from the package |
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149 for compiling and installing NOFFLE on your system. |
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152 (<img src="img_german.gif" width="16" height="14" alt="[Deutsch]"> |
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153 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/klaus.moedinger/noffle_install_de.html">"NOFFLE Installation"</a>) |
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155 <a href="mailto:klaus.moedinger@t-online.de">Klaus Mödinger</a>. |
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160 markus.enzenberger@t-online.de</a>. |
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171 <a href="mailto:mbu@privat.kkf.net">Mark Bulmahn</a> |
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174 Leafnode</a> - news server similar to NOFFLE |
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179 <a href="http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html">WWWOFFLE</a> |
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186 The <i>wildmat</i> newsgroup pattern matching software used by NOFFLE | |
187 was developed by Rich Salz, and is as distributed with INN | |
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193 Last modified 4/2000, |
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