The NOFFLE News Server


Features

NOFFLE is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections to the Internet. It acts as a server to news clients running on the local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server.

It allows reading news offline with many news reader programs, even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.

NOFFLE is written for the Linux operating system and freely available under GPL (see http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html).

While Online:

While Offline:

Compatibility with News Clients

Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader. Caching of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them and should be switched off.

Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode puts some requirements on the news reader program. See NOTES.txt for compatibility notes.

Getting NOFFLE

NOFFLE can be downloaded from the NOFFLE homepage at http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle.html:
noffle-0.19.tar.gz (current release, 25 Apr 1999)
noffle-0.17.tar.gz (last release, 25 Jan 1999)
Read INSTALL.txt from the package for compiling and installing NOFFLE on your system.

RPM packages have been created by Mario Moder (moderm@gmx.net). They are available at

ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/

The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports, comments and patches to me (markus.enzenberger@t-online.de).

If you want to receive announcements about NOFFLE, I will put you on my announcement list. Just send me a mail.

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Last modified 5/99, Markus Enzenberger