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2 The NOFFLE News Server 2 The Noffle News Server
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4 4
5 Features 5 Features
6 -------- 6 --------
7 7
8 NOFFLE is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up 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 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 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 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. 12 available under the terms of the GPL. See COPYING for details.
13 13
14 While Online: 14 While Online:
15 15
16 * Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched immediately from 16 * Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched immediately from
21 * Allows reading news offline with many news clients, even if they do not 21 * Allows reading news offline with many news clients, even if they do not
22 support offline reading by themselves. 22 support offline reading by themselves.
23 23
24 * Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode. 24 * Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
25 * In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely 25 * In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely
26 downloaded yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo 26 downloaded yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo
27 article body telling the human about this. 27 article body telling the human about this.
28 * In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once. 28 * In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
29 * Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the whole 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 30 thread for download (all later articles for some time that are
31 referencing the original article). 31 referencing the original article).
32 32
33 * The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling NOFFLE 33 * The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling Noffle
34 in the ip-up script. 34 in the ip-up script.
35 35
36 * Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' command or 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 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. 38 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
39 39
40 * NOFFLE also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted in 40 * Noffle also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted in
41 local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately, 41 local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately,
42 and are expired in the same way as other articles. 42 and are expired in the same way as other articles.
43 43
44 44
45 Compatibility with News Clients 45 Compatibility with News Clients
46 ------------------------------- 46 -------------------------------
47 47
48 See docs/NOTES for information about news client software. 48 See docs/NOTES for information about news client software.
49 49
50 50
51 Getting NOFFLE 51 Getting Noffle
52 -------------- 52 --------------
53 53
54 NOFFLE can be downloaded from the following location: 54 The current stable release is: none
55 55
56 http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz 56 The current development release is: 1.0pre5
57 (18 Apr 2000)
58 57
59 http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz 58 The Noffle homepage is at:
60 (13 Nov 1999)
61 59
62 You can always get the latest version from CVS. For instructions see 60 http://noffle.sourceforge.net/
63 61
64 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044 62 Official releases can be downloaded at the File Releases section
63 of the Noffle project page:
65 64
65 http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044
66 66
67 RPM packages have been created by Mario Moder <moderm@gmx.net>. They are 67 The latest development snapshot is available via CVS at:
68 available at
69 68
70 ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/ 69 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044
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72
73 I moved Noffle to SourceForge recently (http://sourceforge.net/).
74
75 You can download files from the Noffle project page at
76 http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044
77
78 There is also a mailing list and a discussion forum.
79 70
80 71
81 Installation 72 Installation
82 ------------ 73 ------------
83 74
85 76
86 77
87 Documentation 78 Documentation
88 ------------- 79 -------------
89 80
90 Read the files in the subdirectory docs/ for more info on NOFFLE. 81 Read the files in the subdirectory docs/ and the manual pages
91 Read INSTALL for information about compiling and installing NOFFLE on your 82 noffle(1) and noffle.conf(5) for more information on Noffle.
92 system.
93 83
94 Some German documentation is provided by 84 There is a noffle-users mailing list at SourceForge:
95 Klaus Mödinger <klaus.moedinger@t-online.de>:
96 85
97 http://home.t-online.de/home/klaus.moedinger/noffle_install_de.html 86 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1044
98 87
88 Bugs should be submitted here:
99 89
100 The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports, comments and 90 http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1044
101 patches to Markus Enzenberger <markus.enzenberger@t-online.de>.
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103
104 Links
105 -----
106
107 * http://www.tin.org/docs.html
108 NNTP information
109
110 * http://www.privat.kkf.net/~mark.bulmahn/ncontr.html
111 ncontr -- a graphical front-end for NOFFLE by
112 Mark Bulmahn <mbu@privat.kkf.net>
113
114 * http://www.leafnode.org/
115 Leafnode -- a news server similar to NOFFLE
116
117 * http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html
118 slrn -- a powerful news reader for Windows and Unix
119
120 * http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html
121 WWWOFFLE - http proxy
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123 92
124 Acknowledgements 93 Acknowledgements
125 ---------------- 94 ----------------
126 95
127 The wildmat newsgroup pattern matching software used by NOFFLE was developed 96 The wildmat newsgroup pattern matching software used by Noffle was developed
128 by Rich Salz, and is distributed with INN v2.2. 97 by Rich Salz, and is distributed with INN v2.2.
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130
131 --
132 Markus Enzenberger <markus.enzenberger@t-online.de>
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