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<b>Q:</b> What is the difference between NOFFLE and leafnode?
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<b>A:</b> NOFFLE uses less resources (disk space and bandwidth). Downloading
groups in overview mode is several times faster, because it uses the XOVER
command instead of HEAD. In addition, there is the quasi-transparent mode,
when online, which allows to browse through groups and cache everything
without subscribing.<br>
NOFFLE is GPLed, leafnode isn't.

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<b>Q:</b> I subscribe to groups, but get a "Retreiving failed"
message for every requested article.
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<b>A:</b> Some news server do not allow retrieving articles by message-ID.
You cannot use NOFFLE together with these servers presently.

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<b>Q:</b> I changed the server in the config files, but the
new groups do not appear.
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<b>A:</b> You should run <code>noffle --query groups</code> again. If you
want all old group information deleted, you should remove the file
data/groupinfo.gdbm in the spool directory before.

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<b>Q:</b> The Emacs news reader GNUS hangs while getting active list
from server.
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<b>A:</b> This is a known phenomena and I believe that it is a bug with
GNUS, because the log files show correct handling of client commands by
noffle.

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author	enz
date	Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:56:57 +0100
parents	e9fdb0f66563
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