README
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2The Noffle News Server
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5Features
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7
8Noffle is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up
9connections to the Internet. It acts as a server to news clients running on
10the local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote
11server. Noffle is written for the GNU/Linux operating system and freely
12available under the terms of the GPL. See COPYING for details.
13
14 * Allows reading news offline with many news clients, even if they do not
15 support offline reading by themselves.
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17 * Groups can be retrieved in overview, full or thread mode.
18 * In overview mode, opened articles that have not been completely
19 downloaded yet are marked for download. Noffle generates a pseudo
20 article body telling the human about this.
21 * In full mode, complete articles are fetched at once.
22 * Thread mode is like overview mode, but opening an article marks the whole
23 thread for download (all later articles for some time that are
24 referencing the original article).
25
26 * The news feed is invoked automatically next online time by calling Noffle
27 in the ip-up script.
28
29 * Groups can be put on the fetch list via the 'noffle' command or
30 automatically when someone tries to read them. Groups can be automatically
31 removed from the fetch list, when nobody accesses them for some time.
32
33 * Noffle also offers limited support for local groups. Articles posted in
34 local groups appear in the news database for those groups immediately,
35 and are expired in the same way as other articles.
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37Compatibility with News Clients
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40See docs/NOTES for information about news client software.
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42
43Getting Noffle
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45
46The current stable release is: 1.0.1
47
48The current development release is: 1.1.2
49
50The Noffle homepage is at:
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52 http://noffle.sourceforge.net/
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54Official releases can be downloaded at the File Releases section
55of the Noffle project page:
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57 http://sourceforge.net/projects/noffle
58
59The latest development snapshot is available via CVS at:
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61 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=1044
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63
64Installation
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67Read INSTALL for information about compiling and installing Noffle.
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70Documentation
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72
73Read the files in the subdirectory docs/ and the manual pages
74noffle(1) and noffle.conf(5) for more information on Noffle.
75
76There is a noffle-users mailing list at SourceForge:
77
78 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1044
79
80Bugs should be submitted here:
81
82 http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1044
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84
85Acknowledgements
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87
88The wildmat newsgroup pattern matching software used by Noffle was developed
89by Rich Salz, and is distributed with INN v2.2.
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