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[svn] Applied patch from Jim Hague: support for local groups / new command line options --create and --cancel.
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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">
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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 M&ouml;dinger</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>