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3 <head> | 2 <head> |
4 <title>NOFFLE</title> | 3 <title>NOFFLE</title> |
4 <META NAME="description" CONTENT="NOFFLE is a news server for Linux that is optimized for low speed dialup connections to the Internet and few users. It can be used to add offline reading capability to news readers."> | |
5 <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="noffle, news server, news reader, offline, modem, dialup, linux"> | |
5 </head> | 6 </head> |
6 | 7 |
7 <body bgcolor=white> | 8 <body bgcolor=white> |
8 <p> | 9 <p> |
9 | 10 |
13 | 14 |
14 <p> | 15 <p> |
15 <hr> | 16 <hr> |
16 <p> | 17 <p> |
17 | 18 |
18 <h2>Features</h2> | 19 <ul> |
20 <li> | |
21 <a href="#features">Features</a> | |
22 <li> | |
23 <a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a> | |
24 <li> | |
25 <a href="#getting">Getting NOFFLE</a> | |
26 <li> | |
27 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a> | |
28 <li> | |
29 <a href="#links">Links</a> | |
30 </ul> | |
31 | |
32 <p> | |
33 <hr> | |
34 <p> | |
35 | |
36 <h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2> | |
19 | 37 |
20 NOFFLE is a | 38 NOFFLE is a |
21 <a href=http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=usenet>Usenet</a> | 39 <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 | 40 news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections |
23 to the Internet. | 41 to the Internet. |
24 It acts as a server to news clients running on the | 42 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. | 43 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 | 44 NOFFLE is written for the |
31 <a href="http://www.linux.org/">Linux</a> | 45 <a href=http://www.linux.org/>Linux </a> |
32 operating system and freely available under GPL | 46 operating system and freely available under |
33 (see <a href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html"> | 47 <a href=http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html>GPL</a>. |
34 http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html</a>). | |
35 <p> | 48 <p> |
36 While Online: | 49 While Online: |
37 <ul> | 50 <ul> |
38 <li> | 51 <li> |
39 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched | 52 Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched |
43 While Offline: | 56 While Offline: |
44 <ul> | 57 <ul> |
45 <li> | 58 <li> |
46 Allows reading news offline with many news clients, | 59 Allows reading news offline with many news clients, |
47 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves. | 60 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves. |
48 <p> | 61 </li> |
49 <li> | 62 <li> |
50 Groups can be retrieved in different modes: | 63 Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode. |
51 <ul> | 64 <ul> |
52 <li> | 65 <li> |
53 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded | 66 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded |
54 yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo article telling | 67 yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo article body telling |
55 the human about this. | 68 the human about this. |
69 </li> | |
56 <li> | 70 <li> |
57 In full mode, the complete articles are fetched. | 71 In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once. |
72 </li> | |
58 <li> | 73 <li> |
59 Thread mode is like overview mode, but automatically downloads all | 74 Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the |
60 article bodies that are in the same thread as articles that already have | 75 whole thread for download (all later articles for some time |
61 been read. | 76 that are referencing the original article). |
77 </li> | |
62 </ul> | 78 </ul> |
63 <p> | 79 </li> |
64 <li> | 80 <li> |
65 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling | 81 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling |
66 NOFFLE in the ip-up script. | 82 NOFFLE in the ip-up script. |
67 <p> | 83 </li> |
68 <li> | 84 <li> |
69 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' | 85 Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' |
70 command or automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be | 86 command or |
71 removed from the fetch list manually or automatically, when nobody accesses | 87 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically |
72 them for some time. | 88 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time. |
73 </i> | 89 </li> |
90 <li> | |
91 NOFFLE also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted | |
92 in local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately, | |
93 and are expired in the same way as other articles. | |
94 </li> | |
74 </ul> | 95 </ul> |
75 | 96 |
76 <h2>Compatibility with News Clients</h2> | 97 <h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></h2> |
77 | 98 |
78 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader. | 99 Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader. |
79 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them | 100 Caching of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them |
80 and should be switched off. | 101 and should be switched off. |
81 <p> | 102 <p> |
82 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode puts some | 103 Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the |
83 requirements on the news reader program. See | 104 following from the news reader program: |
84 <a href="NOTES.html">NOTES.txt</a> for compatibility notes. | 105 <p> |
106 <ul> | |
107 <li> | |
108 It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off), | |
109 because the article bodies change from the pseudo body | |
110 "marked for download" to the real body. | |
111 <p> | |
112 <li> | |
113 The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically, | |
114 because it will mark them unwantedly for download. | |
115 </ul> | |
116 | |
85 <p> | 117 <p> |
86 | 118 |
87 <h2>Getting NOFFLE</h2> | 119 <h2><a name="getting">Getting NOFFLE</a></h2> |
88 | 120 |
89 NOFFLE can be downloaded from the NOFFLE homepage at | 121 NOFFLE can be downloaded from this web site. |
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> | 122 <blockquote> |
93 <tt> | 123 <tt><a href=./noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz>noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz</a></tt> |
94 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.19.tar.gz"> | 124 (current release, 18 Apr 2000) |
95 noffle-0.19.tar.gz</a> | |
96 </tt> | |
97 (current release, 25 Apr 1999) | |
98 <br> | 125 <br> |
99 <tt> | 126 <tt><a href=./noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz>noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz</a></tt> |
100 <a href=http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.17.tar.gz> | 127 (current release, 13 Nov 1999) |
101 noffle-0.17.tar.gz</a> | |
102 </tt> | |
103 (last release, 25 Jan 1999) | |
104 </blockquote> | 128 </blockquote> |
105 Read | 129 RPM packages have been created by |
106 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle_INSTALL.html"> | 130 <a href="mailto:moderm@gmx.net">Mario Moder</a>. They are available |
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 | 131 at |
113 <blockquote> | 132 <blockquote> |
114 <a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a> | 133 <tt><a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a></tt> |
115 </blockquote> | 134 </blockquote> |
116 <p> | 135 <p> |
136 | |
137 <img src="img_new.gif" width="32" height="16" alt="[NEW]"> | |
138 I moved Noffle to | |
139 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</a> | |
140 recently. You can download files from the | |
141 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044">Noffle project page</a>. | |
142 There is also a mailing list and a discussion forum. | |
143 | |
144 <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> | |
145 | |
146 Read the files README and INSTALL from the package | |
147 for compiling and installing NOFFLE on your system. | |
148 <p> | |
149 Some German documentation | |
150 (<img src="img_german.gif" width="16" height="14" alt="[Deutsch]"> | |
151 <a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/klaus.moedinger/noffle_install_de.html">"NOFFLE Installation"</a>) | |
152 is provided by | |
153 <a href="mailto:klaus.moedinger@t-online.de">Klaus Mödinger</a>. | |
154 <p> | |
117 The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports, | 155 The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports, |
118 comments and patches to me | 156 comments and patches to |
119 (<a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">markus.enzenberger@t-online.de</a>). | 157 <a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de"> |
158 markus.enzenberger@t-online.de</a>. | |
120 <p> | 159 <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 | 160 |
124 <h2>Links</h2> | 161 <h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2> |
125 | 162 |
126 <ul> | 163 <ul> |
127 <li> | 164 <li> |
128 NNTP information | 165 <a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">NNTP information</a> |
129 <br> | |
130 (<a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">http://www.tin.org/docs.html</a>) | |
131 <li> | 166 <li> |
132 Leafnode - news server similar to NOFFLE | 167 <a href="http://www.privat.kkf.net/~mark.bulmahn/ncontr.html">ncontr</a> |
133 <br> | 168 - graphical front-end for NOFFLE by |
134 (<a href="http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html">http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html</a>) | 169 <a href="mailto:mbu@privat.kkf.net">Mark Bulmahn</a> |
135 <li> | 170 <li> |
136 SLRN - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix | 171 <a href="http://www.leafnode.org/"> |
137 <br> | 172 Leafnode</a> - news server similar to NOFFLE |
138 (<a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html</a>) | |
139 <li> | 173 <li> |
140 GNUS - Emacs news reader | 174 <a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">SLRN</a> |
141 <br> | 175 - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix |
142 (<a href="http://www.gnus.org/">http://www.gnus.org/</a> | 176 <li> |
177 <a href="http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html">WWWOFFLE</a> | |
178 - http proxy | |
143 </ul> | 179 </ul> |
180 | |
144 | 181 |
145 <p> | 182 <p> |
146 <hr> | 183 <hr> |
147 <small><i> | 184 <small><i> |
148 Last modified 5/99, | 185 Last modified 4/2000, |
149 <a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">Markus Enzenberger</a> | 186 <a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">Markus Enzenberger</a> |
150 </i></small> | 187 </i></small> |
151 | 188 |
152 </body> | 189 </body> |
153 </html> | 190 </html> |