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4 <title>NOFFLE</title>
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8 <p>
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10 <center>
11 <h1>The NOFFLE News Server</h1>
12 </center>
13
14 <p>
15 <hr>
16 <p>
17
18 <h2>Features</h2>
19
20 NOFFLE is a
21 <a href=http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=usenet>Usenet</a>
22 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections
23 to the Internet.
24 It acts as a server to news clients running on the
25 local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server.
26 <p>
27 It allows reading news offline with many news reader programs,
28 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
29 <p>
30 NOFFLE is written for the
31 <a href="http://www.linux.org/">Linux</a>
32 operating system and freely available under GPL
33 (see <a href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html">
34 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html</a>).
35 <p>
36 While Online:
37 <ul>
38 <li>
39 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched
40 immediately from the remote server.
41 </ul>
42 <p>
43 While Offline:
44 <ul>
45 <li>
46 Allows reading news offline with many news clients,
47 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
48 <p>
49 <li>
50 Groups can be retrieved in different modes:
51 <ul>
52 <li>
53 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded
54 yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo article telling
55 the human about this.
56 <li>
57 In full mode, the complete articles are fetched.
58 <li>
59 Thread mode is like overview mode, but automatically downloads all
60 article bodies that are in the same thread as articles that already have
61 been read.
62 </ul>
63 <p>
64 <li>
65 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling
66 NOFFLE in the ip-up script.
67 <p>
68 <li>
69 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle'
70 command or automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be
71 removed from the fetch list manually or automatically, when nobody accesses
72 them for some time.
73 </i>
74 </ul>
75
76 <h2>Compatibility with News Clients</h2>
77
78 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader.
79 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them
80 and should be switched off.
81 <p>
82 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode puts some
83 requirements on the news reader program. See
84 <a href="NOTES.html">NOTES.txt</a> for compatibility notes.
85 <p>
86
87 <h2>Getting NOFFLE</h2>
88
89 NOFFLE can be downloaded from the NOFFLE homepage at
90 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle.html">
91 http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle.html</a>:
92 <blockquote>
93 <tt>
94 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.19.tar.gz">
95 noffle-0.19.tar.gz</a>
96 </tt>
97 (current release, 25 Apr 1999)
98 <br>
99 <tt>
100 <a href=http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.17.tar.gz>
101 noffle-0.17.tar.gz</a>
102 </tt>
103 (last release, 25 Jan 1999)
104 </blockquote>
105 Read
106 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle_INSTALL.html">
107 INSTALL.txt</a>
108 from the package for compiling and installing NOFFLE on your system.
109 <p>
110 RPM packages have been created by Mario Moder
111 (<a href="mailto:moderm@gmx.net">moderm@gmx.net</a>). They are available
112 at
113 <blockquote>
114 <a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a>
115 </blockquote>
116 <p>
117 The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports,
118 comments and patches to me
119 (<a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">markus.enzenberger@t-online.de</a>).
120 <p>
121 If you want to receive announcements about NOFFLE, I will put you on
122 my announcement list. Just send me a mail.
123
124 <h2>Links</h2>
125
126 <ul>
127 <li>
128 NNTP information
129 <br>
130 (<a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">http://www.tin.org/docs.html</a>)
131 <li>
132 Leafnode - news server similar to NOFFLE
133 <br>
134 (<a href="http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html">http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html</a>)
135 <li>
136 SLRN - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix
137 <br>
138 (<a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html</a>)
139 <li>
140 GNUS - Emacs news reader
141 <br>
142 (<a href="http://www.gnus.org/">http://www.gnus.org/</a>
143 </ul>
144
145 <p>
146 <hr>
147 <small><i>
148 Last modified 5/99,
149 <a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">Markus Enzenberger</a>
150 </i></small>
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