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Just upgraded from the previous version (which worked fine) and installed perfectly so many thanks....What would be a great improvement would be be this IMO...

1 - A random default avatar for guest NNTP posts - Would tie in with forum based posts better and look better.

2 - Use the same quotation code as in the forum...i.e the tidy box that surrounds quotes normally within forum posts...I don't know how this would transfer back to the newsgroups however....??? Anyway, the Admin cp section really helps...really nice stuff...

Now keep in mind not every servers handles the same newsgroups... but here is a list I go by...

http://205.215.62.111/groups-list.txt (2mb in size).

I like the avatar idea... The quotes might be sorda hard because of the different ways the news clients quote messages... maybe a default for the standard ones could be built in?

Mark

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Originally Posted by DaveLogic

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Originally Posted by Odoin

I like the avatar idea... The quotes might be sorda hard because of the different ways the news clients quote messages... maybe a default for the standard ones could be built in?

Mark

My Newsgroup stuff gets a tad ignored because all of the NNTP guest post members don't/can't have an avatar which sort of gives the game away...I would imagine that this would better be placed as a "generic" hack as even it it were a static guest avatar it woud be a plausable idea being that boards could use a site logo as default...???

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Originally Posted by DaveLogic

1. I am not sure it will work, but if someone wants to try it out. Add a user with the user ID of 0. And add avatars etc for the user 0.

2. What really matters is what contents is ended up on Usenet. If the normal usenet users see BB tags etc, they will start to hate your forums. So a text based message will be more acceptable. Even the script gets rid of the BB tags before sending them, there are always users who miss one "[" or "]" and stuff up the formating.:)

thanks for the list

SUGGESTION on next update
Create a script (ala cron job) to remove certain post(s) (by subject) that contains "porn", "$", "buy", etc, etc...

I've been playing with getting the email notifications to work with this script. If you find

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// send out email notices

in gateway.php and after it put:

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exec_send_notification($threadid, $userid, $postid);

It seems to work (well, it did the few times I tested it :speechless: )
Let me know if it works for you.

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Originally Posted by princeton

thanks for the list

SUGGESTION on next update
Create a script (ala cron job) to remove certain post(s) (by subject) that contains "porn", "$", "buy", etc, etc...

After a long battle with my host and finding a good NSP, I finally got this hack to work but only through port 23... which is fine with me as long as it works.

I would like to add to what Princeton has suggested. We absolutely need a filter system to screen out not only offensive headers but also attachments. One of my subscribed groups is a binary group. (alt.binaries.3d.lightwave) Lately, I have been deleting virii that come through and plant themselves as simple attachments. The main type has been the .scr variety. I would hate to see one of my members click on one of these attachments before I can find it and del it. Perhaps we can intergrate the attachment file extension permissions from VB into this hack, no?

www.cghaus.com

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Originally Posted by Imhotep

The main type has been the .scr variety. I would hate to see one of my members click on one of these attachments before I can find it and del it. Perhaps we can intergrate the attachment file extension permissions from VB into this hack, no?

I have been writing that today (coincidence). I am just testing it, and will post the instructions tomorrow. It checks the extension type aginst what has been allowed in the vb control panel.

These code changes use vb's attachment permissions (extensions only) before inserting attachments into the database - so no more .scr files :squareeyed:

If the file extension is not set up in the 'Attachment Manager' 'Extensions and Sizes' section of the control panel then the attachment is ignored.

I have tested it on version 2.1.0. All changes are to 'gateway.php'. There are 6 additions or changes to the script to be made to 'gateway.php'.

Find

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require_once("global.php");

CHANGE it to:

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$specialtemplates = array(

    'attachmentcache'

);

require_once("global.php");

$attachtypes = unserialize($datastore['attachmentcache']);

Find:

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function process_attachments ($date, $postid, $threadid) {

    global $message, $DB_site;

AFTER it put:

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global $attachtypes;

Find:

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$attachcount = 0;

AFTER it put:

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$attaches = 0;

Find:

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for ($i = 1; $i <= $message['attachments']; $i++) {

AFTER it put:

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// now we check the file extension against the vb settings to check that it exists, and if it does, check it is enabled.

        $attachment_name2 = strtolower($message['attachment' . $i]['headers']['filename']);

                $extension = file_extension($attachment_name2);

        

    if (!$attachtypes["$extension"] OR !$attachtypes["$extension"]['enabled'])

    {

        // invalid extension

        logging($extension . " extensions are not accepted, as currently set up in the control panel \n");

    }

    else {

Find:

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fclose($handle);

        unlink($tempfile);

CHANGE to:

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$attaches++;

        fclose($handle);

        unlink($tempfile);

        }

Find:

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$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post 

    SET attach = attach + " . $attachcount . " WHERE postid = $postid");

    $DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread

    SET attach = attach + " . $attachcount . " WHERE threadid = $threadid");

    logging("Inserted " . $attachcount . " attachment(s).");

}

CHANGE to:

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$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post 

    SET attach = attach + " . $attaches . " WHERE postid = $postid");

    $DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread

    SET attach = attach + " . $attaches . " WHERE threadid = $threadid");

    logging("Inserted " . $attaches . " attachment(s).");

And that is it :nervous:

This script doesn't check against the maximum file size or image dimensions permissions, but it would be fairly easy to add on however I'm not sure of how useful this would be, as people posting to newsgroups would be unaware of your boards limits.

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Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (14)bbcode_php_printable (5)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (4)pagenav_pagelink (3)pagenav_pagelinkrel (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (10)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
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