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2 The NOFFLE News Server
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4
5 Features
6 --------
7
8 NOFFLE is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up
9 connections to the Internet. It acts as a server to news clients running on
10 the local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote
11 server. NOFFLE is written for the GNU/Linux operating system and freely
12 available under the terms of the GPL. See COPYING for details.
13
14 While Online:
15
16 * Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched immediately from
17 the remote server.
18
19 While Offline:
20
21 * Allows reading news offline with many news clients, even if they do not
22 support offline reading by themselves.
23
24 * Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
25 * In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely
26 downloaded yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo
27 article body telling the human about this.
28 * In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
29 * Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the whole
30 thread for download (all later articles for some time that are
31 referencing the original article).
32
33 * The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling NOFFLE
34 in the ip-up script.
35
36 * Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' command or
37 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
38 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
39
40 * NOFFLE also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted in
41 local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately,
42 and are expired in the same way as other articles.
43
44
45 Compatibility with News Clients
46 -------------------------------
47
48 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader. Caching
49 of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them and should be
50 switched off.
51
52 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the following
53 from the news reader program:
54
55 * It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off),
56 because the article bodies change from the pseudo body "marked for download"
57 to the real body.
58
59 * The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically, because it will
60 mark them unwantedly for download.
61
62
63 Getting NOFFLE
64 --------------
65
66 NOFFLE can be downloaded from the following location:
67
68 http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz
69 (18 Apr 2000)
70
71 http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz
72 (13 Nov 1999)
73
74 You can always get the latest version from CVS. For instructions see
75
76 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044
77
78
79 RPM packages have been created by Mario Moder <moderm@gmx.net>. They are
80 available at
81
82 ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/
83
84
85 I moved Noffle to SourceForge recently (http://sourceforge.net/).
86
87 You can download files from the Noffle project page at
88 http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044
89
90 There is also a mailing list and a discussion forum.
91
92
93 Installation
94 ------------
95
96 Read INSTALL for information about compiling and installing Noffle.
97
98
99 Documentation
100 -------------
101
102 Read the files in the subdirectory docs/ for more info on NOFFLE.
103 Read INSTALL for information about compiling and installing NOFFLE on your
104 system.
105
106 Some German documentation is provided by
107 Klaus Mödinger <klaus.moedinger@t-online.de>:
108
109 http://home.t-online.de/home/klaus.moedinger/noffle_install_de.html
110
111
112 The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports, comments and
113 patches to Markus Enzenberger <markus.enzenberger@t-online.de>.
114
115
116 Links
117 -----
118
119 * http://www.tin.org/docs.html
120 NNTP information
121
122 * http://www.privat.kkf.net/~mark.bulmahn/ncontr.html
123 ncontr -- a graphical front-end for NOFFLE by
124 Mark Bulmahn <mbu@privat.kkf.net>
125
126 * http://www.leafnode.org/
127 Leafnode -- a news server similar to NOFFLE
128
129 * http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html
130 slrn -- a powerful news reader for Windows and Unix
131
132 * http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html
133 WWWOFFLE - http proxy
134
135
136 Acknowledgements
137 ----------------
138
139 The wildmat newsgroup pattern matching software used by NOFFLE was developed
140 by Rich Salz, and is distributed with INN v2.2.
141
142
143 --
144 Markus Enzenberger <markus.enzenberger@t-online.de>
145