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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 |
71 | |
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>. | |
102 | |
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 | |
122 | 91 |
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. |
129 | |
130 | |
131 -- | |
132 Markus Enzenberger <markus.enzenberger@t-online.de> | |
133 |