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diff README @ 84:8c6dbce3b178 noffle
[svn] Merged in changes from release-1-0 up to release-1-0-merge-1.
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date | Wed, 17 May 2000 11:42:48 +0100 |
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--- a/README Sun May 14 17:16:24 2000 +0100 +++ b/README Wed May 17 11:42:48 2000 +0100 @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -The NOFFLE News Server +The Noffle News Server ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Features -------- -NOFFLE is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up +Noffle is a Usenet 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. NOFFLE is written for the GNU/Linux operating system and freely +server. Noffle is written for the GNU/Linux operating system and freely available under the terms of the GPL. See COPYING for details. While Online: @@ -23,21 +23,21 @@ * Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode. * In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely - downloaded yet are marked for download. NOFFLE generates a pseudo + downloaded yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo article body telling the human about this. * In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once. * 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). - * The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling NOFFLE + * The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling Noffle in the ip-up script. * Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' 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. - * NOFFLE also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted in + * 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. @@ -48,34 +48,25 @@ See docs/NOTES for information about news client software. -Getting NOFFLE +Getting Noffle -------------- -NOFFLE can be downloaded from the following location: +The current stable release is: none - http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz - (18 Apr 2000) +The current development release is: 1.0pre5 - http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz - (13 Nov 1999) +The Noffle homepage is at: -You can always get the latest version from CVS. For instructions see - - http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044 - + http://noffle.sourceforge.net/ -RPM packages have been created by Mario Moder <moderm@gmx.net>. They are -available at - - ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/ - +Official releases can be downloaded at the File Releases section +of the Noffle project page: -I moved Noffle to SourceForge recently (http://sourceforge.net/). + http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044 -You can download files from the Noffle project page at - http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1044 +The latest development snapshot is available via CVS at: -There is also a mailing list and a discussion forum. + http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044 Installation @@ -87,47 +78,20 @@ Documentation ------------- -Read the files in the subdirectory docs/ for more info on NOFFLE. -Read INSTALL for information about compiling and installing NOFFLE on your -system. - -Some German documentation is provided by -Klaus Mödinger <klaus.moedinger@t-online.de>: +Read the files in the subdirectory docs/ and the manual pages +noffle(1) and noffle.conf(5) for more information on Noffle. - http://home.t-online.de/home/klaus.moedinger/noffle_install_de.html - - -The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports, comments and -patches to Markus Enzenberger <markus.enzenberger@t-online.de>. - +There is a noffle-users mailing list at SourceForge: -Links ------ - - * http://www.tin.org/docs.html - NNTP information + http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1044 - * http://www.privat.kkf.net/~mark.bulmahn/ncontr.html - ncontr -- a graphical front-end for NOFFLE by - Mark Bulmahn <mbu@privat.kkf.net> +Bugs should be submitted here: - * http://www.leafnode.org/ - Leafnode -- a news server similar to NOFFLE - - * http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html - slrn -- a powerful news reader for Windows and Unix - - * http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/index.html - WWWOFFLE - http proxy + http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1044 Acknowledgements ---------------- -The wildmat newsgroup pattern matching software used by NOFFLE was developed +The wildmat newsgroup pattern matching software used by Noffle was developed by Rich Salz, and is distributed with INN v2.2. - - --- -Markus Enzenberger <markus.enzenberger@t-online.de> -