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<h1>The NOFFLE News Server</h1>
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<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.
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It allows reading news offline with many news reader programs,
even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
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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>).
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While Online:
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Any newsgroup can be read, selected articles are fetched
immediately from the remote server.
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While Offline:
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Allows reading news offline with many news clients,
even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.
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Groups can be retrieved in different modes:
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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.
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In full mode, the complete articles are fetched.
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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.
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The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling
NOFFLE in the ip-up script.
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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.
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<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.
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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.
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<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>:
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<a href="http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.19.tar.gz">
noffle-0.19.tar.gz</a>
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(current release, 25 Apr 1999)
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<a href=http://home.t-online.de/home/markus.enzenberger/noffle-0.17.tar.gz>
noffle-0.17.tar.gz</a>
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(last release, 25 Jan 1999)
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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.
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RPM packages have been created by Mario Moder
(<a href="mailto:moderm@gmx.net">moderm@gmx.net</a>). They are available
at
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<a href="ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/">ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/</a>
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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>).
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If you want to receive announcements about NOFFLE, I will put you on
my announcement list. Just send me a mail.

<h2>Links</h2>

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NNTP information
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(<a href="http://www.tin.org/docs.html">http://www.tin.org/docs.html</a>)
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Leafnode - news server similar to NOFFLE
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(<a href="http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html">http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html</a>)
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SLRN - powerful news reader for Windows and Unix
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(<a href="http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html">http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html</a>)
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GNUS - Emacs news reader
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(<a href="http://www.gnus.org/">http://www.gnus.org/</a>
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Last modified 5/99,
<a href="mailto:markus.enzenberger@t-online.de">Markus Enzenberger</a>
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date	Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:09:20 +0100
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