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+<head>
+<title>NOFFLE</title>
+</head>
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+<body bgcolor=white>
+<p>
+
+<center>
+<h1>The NOFFLE News Server</h1>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+<hr>
+<p>
+
+<h2>Features</h2>
+
+NOFFLE is a
+<a href=http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=usenet>Usenet</a>
+news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections
+to the Internet.
+It acts as a server to news clients running on the
+local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server.
+<p>
+It allows reading news offline with many news reader programs,
+even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
+<p>
+NOFFLE is written for the
+<a href="http://www.linux.org/">Linux</a>
+operating system and freely available under GPL
+(see <a href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html">
+http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html</a>).
+<p>
+While Online:
+<ul>
+<li>
+Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched
+immediately from the remote server.
+</ul>
+<p>
+While Offline:
+<ul>
+<li>
+Allows reading news offline with many news clients,
+even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
+<p>
+<li>
+Groups can be retrieved in different modes:
+<ul>
+<li>
+In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded
+yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo article telling
+the human about this.
+<li>
+In full mode, the complete articles are fetched.
+<li>
+Thread mode is like overview mode, but automatically downloads all
+article bodies that are in the same thread as articles that already have
+been read.
+</ul>
+<p>
+<li>
+The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling
+NOFFLE in the ip-up script.
+<p>
+<li>
+Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle'
+command or automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be
+removed from the fetch list manually or automatically, when nobody accesses
+them for some time.
+</i>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Compatibility with News Clients</h2>
+
+Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader.
+Caching of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them
+and should be switched off.
+<p>
+Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode puts some
+requirements on the news reader program. See
+<a href="NOTES.html">NOTES.txt</a> for compatibility notes.
+<p>
+
+<h2>Getting NOFFLE</h2>
+
+NOFFLE can be downloaded from the NOFFLE homepage at
+<a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle.html">
+http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle.html</a>:
+<blockquote>
+<tt>
+<a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.19.tar.gz">
+noffle-0.19.tar.gz</a>
+</tt>
+(current release, 25 Apr 1999)
+<br>
+<tt>
+<a href=http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.17.tar.gz>
+noffle-0.17.tar.gz</a>
+</tt>
+(last release, 25 Jan 1999)
+</blockquote>
+Read
+<a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle_INSTALL.html">
+INSTALL.txt</a>
+from the package for compiling and installing NOFFLE on your system.
+<p>
+RPM packages have been created by Mario Moder
+(<a href="mailto:moderm@gmx.net">moderm@gmx.net</a>). They are available
+at 
+<blockquote>
+<a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a>
+</blockquote>
+<p>
+The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports,
+comments and patches to me
+(<a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">markus.enzenberger@t-online.de</a>).
+<p>
+If you want to receive announcements about NOFFLE, I will put you on
+my announcement list. Just send me a mail.
+
+<h2>Links</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+NNTP information
+<br>
+(<a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">http://www.tin.org/docs.html</a>)
+<li>
+Leafnode - news server similar to NOFFLE
+<br>
+(<a href="http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html">http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html</a>)
+<li>
+SLRN - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix
+<br>
+(<a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html</a>)
+<li>
+GNUS - Emacs news reader
+<br>
+(<a href="http://www.gnus.org/">http://www.gnus.org/</a>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+<hr>
+<small><i>
+Last modified 5/99,
+<a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">Markus Enzenberger</a>
+</i></small>
+
+</body>
+</html>