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Fix man page ugliness. Debian bug Bug#432392.
author Jim Hague <jim.hague@acm.org>
date Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:25:21 +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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6 --------
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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 * Allows reading news offline with many news clients, even if they do not
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15 support offline reading by themselves.
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17 * Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
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18 * In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely
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19 downloaded yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo
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20 article body telling the human about this.
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21 * In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
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22 * Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the whole
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23 thread for download (all later articles for some time that are
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24 referencing the original article).
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26 * The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling Noffle
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27 in the ip-up script.
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29 * Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' command or
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30 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
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31 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
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33 * Noffle also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted in
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34 local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately,
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35 and are expired in the same way as other articles.
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37 Compatibility with News Clients
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40 See docs/NOTES for information about news client software.
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43 Getting Noffle
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46 The current stable release is: 1.0.1
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48 The current development release is: 1.2.0rc1
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50 The Noffle homepage is at:
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52 http://noffle.sourceforge.net/
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54 Official releases can be downloaded at the File Releases section
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55 of the Noffle project page:
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57 http://sourceforge.net/projects/noffle
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59 The latest development snapshot is available via CVS at:
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61 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044
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67 Read INSTALL for information about compiling and installing Noffle.
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70 Documentation
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73 Read the files in the subdirectory docs/ and the manual pages
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74 noffle(1) and noffle.conf(5) for more information on Noffle.
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76 There is a noffle-users mailing list at SourceForge:
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78 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1044
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80 Bugs should be submitted here:
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85 Acknowledgements
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88 The wildmat newsgroup pattern matching software used by Noffle was developed
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89 by Rich Salz, and is distributed with INN v2.2.