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[svn] Applied patch from Jim Hague: support for local groups / new command line options --create and --cancel.
author enz
date Sat, 29 Apr 2000 15:45:56 +0100
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 <html>
-
 <head>
 <title>NOFFLE</title>
+<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.">
+<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="noffle, news server, news reader, offline, modem, dialup, linux">
 </head>
 
 <body bgcolor=white>
@@ -15,7 +16,24 @@
 <hr>
 <p>
 
-<h2>Features</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<a href="#features">Features</a>
+<li>
+<a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a>
+<li>
+<a href="#getting">Getting NOFFLE</a>
+<li>
+<a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
+<li>
+<a href="#links">Links</a>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+<hr>
+<p>
+
+<h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2>
 
 NOFFLE is a
 <a href=http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=usenet>Usenet</a>
@@ -23,15 +41,10 @@
 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>).
+<a href=http://www.linux.org/>Linux </a>
+operating system and freely available under
+<a href=http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html>GPL</a>.
 <p>
 While Online:
 <ul>
@@ -45,107 +58,131 @@
 <li>
 Allows reading news offline with many news clients,
 even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
-<p>
+</li>
 <li>
-Groups can be retrieved in different modes:
+Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
 <ul>
 <li>
 In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely downloaded
-yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo article telling
+yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo article body telling
 the human about this.
+</li>
 <li>
-In full mode, the complete articles are fetched.
+In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
+</li>
 <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.
+Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the
+whole thread for download (all later articles for some time
+that are referencing the original article).
+</li>
 </ul>
-<p>
+</li>
 <li>
 The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling
 NOFFLE in the ip-up script.
-<p>
+</li>
 <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>
+command or
+automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
+removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
+</li>
+<li>
+NOFFLE also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted
+in local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately,
+and are expired in the same way as other articles.
+</li>
 </ul>
 
-<h2>Compatibility with News Clients</h2>
+<h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with News Clients</a></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.
+Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the
+following from the news reader program:
+<p>
+<ul>
+<li>
+It must not cache articles at all (or allow to switch the cache off),
+because the article bodies change from the pseudo body
+"marked for download" to the real body.
+<p>
+<li>
+The reader should rarely open article bodies automatically,
+because it will mark them unwantedly for download.
+</ul>
+
 <p>
 
-<h2>Getting NOFFLE</h2>
+<h2><a name="getting">Getting NOFFLE</a></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>:
+NOFFLE can be downloaded from this web site.
 <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)
+<tt><a href=./noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz>noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz</a></tt>
+(current release, 18 Apr 2000)
 <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)
+<tt><a href=./noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz>noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz</a></tt>
+(current release, 13 Nov 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
+RPM packages have been created by
+<a href="mailto:moderm@gmx.net">Mario Moder</a>. They are available
 at 
 <blockquote>
-<a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a>
+<tt><a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a></tt>
 </blockquote>
 <p>
+
+<img src="img_new.gif" width="32" height="16" alt="[NEW]">
+I moved Noffle to
+<a href="http://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</a>
+recently. You can download files from the
+<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044">Noffle project page</a>.
+There is also a mailing list and a discussion forum.
+
+<h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2>
+
+Read the files README and INSTALL from the package
+for compiling and installing NOFFLE on your system.
+<p>
+Some German documentation
+(<img src="img_german.gif" width="16" height="14" alt="[Deutsch]">
+<a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/klaus.moedinger/noffle_install_de.html">"NOFFLE Installation"</a>)
+is provided by
+<a href="mailto:klaus.moedinger@t-online.de">Klaus M&ouml;dinger</a>.
+<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>).
+comments and patches to
+<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>
+<h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2>
 
 <ul>
 <li>
-NNTP information
-<br>
-(<a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">http://www.tin.org/docs.html</a>)
+<a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">NNTP information</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>)
+<a href="http://www.privat.kkf.net/~mark.bulmahn/ncontr.html">ncontr</a>
+- graphical front-end for NOFFLE by
+<a href="mailto:mbu@privat.kkf.net">Mark Bulmahn</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>)
+<a href="http://www.leafnode.org/">
+Leafnode</a> - news server similar to NOFFLE
 <li>
-GNUS - Emacs news reader
-<br>
-(<a href="http://www.gnus.org/">http://www.gnus.org/</a>
+<a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">SLRN</a>
+- powerful news reader for Windows and Unix  
+<li>
+<a href="http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html">WWWOFFLE</a>
+- http proxy
 </ul>
 
+
 <p>
 <hr>
 <small><i>
-Last modified 5/99,
+Last modified 4/2000,
 <a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">Markus Enzenberger</a>
 </i></small>