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4 <title>NOFFLE</title>
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8 <p>
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10 <center>
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11 <h1>The NOFFLE News Server</h1>
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12 </center>
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14 <p>
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15 <hr>
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16 <p>
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17
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18 <h2>Features</h2>
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20 NOFFLE is a
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21 <a href=http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=usenet>Usenet</a>
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22 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections
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23 to the Internet.
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24 It acts as a server to news clients running on the
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25 local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server.
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26 <p>
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27 It allows reading news offline with many news reader programs,
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28 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
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29 <p>
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30 NOFFLE is written for the
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31 <a href="http://www.linux.org/">Linux</a>
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32 operating system and freely available under GPL
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33 (see <a href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html">
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34 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html</a>).
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35 <p>
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36 While Online:
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37 <ul>
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38 <li>
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39 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched
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40 immediately from the remote server.
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41 </ul>
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42 <p>
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43 While Offline:
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44 <ul>
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45 <li>
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46 Allows reading news offline with many news clients,
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47 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
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48 <p>
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49 <li>
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50 Groups can be retrieved in different modes:
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51 <ul>
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52 <li>
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53 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded
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54 yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo article telling
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55 the human about this.
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56 <li>
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57 In full mode, the complete articles are fetched.
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58 <li>
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59 Thread mode is like overview mode, but automatically downloads all
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60 article bodies that are in the same thread as articles that already have
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61 been read.
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62 </ul>
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63 <p>
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64 <li>
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65 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling
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66 NOFFLE in the ip-up script.
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67 <p>
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68 <li>
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69 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle'
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70 command or automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be
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71 removed from the fetch list manually or automatically, when nobody accesses
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72 them for some time.
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73 </i>
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74 </ul>
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76 <h2>Compatibility with News Clients</h2>
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78 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader.
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79 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them
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80 and should be switched off.
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81 <p>
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82 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode puts some
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83 requirements on the news reader program. See
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84 <a href="NOTES.html">NOTES.txt</a> for compatibility notes.
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85 <p>
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86
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87 <h2>Getting NOFFLE</h2>
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88
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89 NOFFLE can be downloaded from the NOFFLE homepage at
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90 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle.html">
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91 http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle.html</a>:
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92 <blockquote>
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94 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.19.tar.gz">
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95 noffle-0.19.tar.gz</a>
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96 </tt>
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97 (current release, 25 Apr 1999)
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98 <br>
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99 <tt>
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100 <a href=http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.17.tar.gz>
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101 noffle-0.17.tar.gz</a>
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102 </tt>
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103 (last release, 25 Jan 1999)
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104 </blockquote>
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105 Read
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106 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle_INSTALL.html">
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107 INSTALL.txt</a>
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108 from the package for compiling and installing NOFFLE on your system.
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109 <p>
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110 RPM packages have been created by Mario Moder
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111 (<a href="mailto:moderm@gmx.net">moderm@gmx.net</a>). They are available
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112 at
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113 <blockquote>
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114 <a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a>
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115 </blockquote>
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116 <p>
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117 The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports,
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118 comments and patches to me
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119 (<a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">markus.enzenberger@t-online.de</a>).
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120 <p>
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121 If you want to receive announcements about NOFFLE, I will put you on
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122 my announcement list. Just send me a mail.
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123
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124 <h2>Links</h2>
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125
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126 <ul>
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128 NNTP information
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130 (<a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">http://www.tin.org/docs.html</a>)
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131 <li>
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132 Leafnode - news server similar to NOFFLE
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133 <br>
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134 (<a href="http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html">http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html</a>)
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135 <li>
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136 SLRN - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix
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137 <br>
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138 (<a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html</a>)
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140 GNUS - Emacs news reader
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141 <br>
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142 (<a href="http://www.gnus.org/">http://www.gnus.org/</a>
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143 </ul>
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148 Last modified 5/99,
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149 <a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">Markus Enzenberger</a>
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