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[svn] Leave online mode, if the connection to a remote server fails for avoiding a series of timeouts and holding the lock for a long time.
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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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69 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044
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72 Installation
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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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86 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1044
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88 Bugs should be submitted here:
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90 http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1044
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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.