You'll see the same restrictive guidelines on most of the decent personal news accounts. Although strictly speaking it could be agued this program probably violates some of these guidelines, if you are simply sucking a selection of text based groups, you are using well below the 'abuse' limit. And this isn't experimental software.... it's a 'release' :)

hehe....

come on beta4 i want to intall this!

We now have control panel integration!

Some of the other features include:

• all variables are now set via the control panel and stored in the database. (except the database connect string obviously)
• support for seperate footers per forum in outgoing posts
• purge options per forum or all usenet posts. can also be set to purge only non-real user posts.
• selectable multi-language characterset support for MIME quoted printable strings
• usergroup assignable permission to allow/disallow usenet posting
• documentation tidy up. (I have personally gone through the installation using the docs on a vanilla vB several times to clear up any typos/errors etc.
• a whole bunch of minor bug fixes

Download version for vB 2.0 beta3

Screeshots of control panel
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I must say this is one of those "out of the box" thinking hacks that is extremely practical and extremely original!!

Quick question though, will the new release make installation and configuration a breeze for n00b's like myself (I wake up every morning and refer to a manual just to get my computer turned on) :)

2.2.20 beta 3... I'm getting stuck on sql updates:

ALTER TABLE post ADD INDEX(tsp);

"Error 1069. Too many keys specified. Max 16 keys allowed"

Anything i could alter in my MySQL settings to fix this?

As long as the msgid column has a unique index you can leave the other indexes off. You may want to re-think the necessity of all your other indexes though. 16 indexes on the post table seems a little excessive :)

I would say very excessive.... it must take forever to add new posts to the database. Unless you are using all those keys (I doubt you are), I would delete those that aren't being used.

Found where the problem was..
a bug in web interface i use to insert stuff to db. It creates extra indexes each run in the past ( msgid, msgid_1, mdgid_2 etc..). My fault, should have debugged the script...

Btw.. many thanks for this mod, it's fantastic.

I did toy with the idea of writing an installation script that parses the vB code and replaces it where necessary, but I figured that most people that install this hack would already have other hacks installed that may have already changed parts of the same code. It also relies on Jelsoft not putting up a sneaky release without changing the version number :)

But if there's enough call for it, I'll create an install script.

go for it m8.