Questions/things to think about:

1. We have installed this awesome hack and we love it. We have noticed that for some UseNet posts, we are getting a large number of duplicate posts and sometimes duplicate thread entries. Has anyone else experienced this? I am not sure of what provides a "unique identifier" for each posts, but it gets to be a pain deleting dups.

2. We have multiple groups pulling down messages into ONE vB forum. If a user replies to a message, which group does it get sent to? :)


Tip:
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If you have access to cron jobs, just do this to make the gateway run:

wget --quiet http://yoursite/forums/gateway.php

447k posts in 2 days. :) You gotta love it.

Hmm,

I have installed it and got Newshosting as the server.

However, when I run gateway.php, it just keeps loading. Nothing happens.

I checked the setlastmsg log and it says:

1 group(s) gatewayed. Connecting to server, server says: 201 NNRP unlimited.newshosting.com (fe47-unl) Service Ready - support@newshosting.com (no posting) Server responded after user name: 381 PASS required Server responded after password: 281 Ok Info for alt.bbc.the-net at unlimited.newshosting.com: 211 373 5855 6227 alt.bbc.the-net Logging in to unlimited.newshosting.com, group alt.bbc.the-net: Max: 6227 Min: 5855 Set last message id for 'alt.bbc.the-net' to 6207

but yet the screen keeps loading and its blank

I have managed to fix it however, it's WAY too slow.

To download 100 messages, it takes atleast 10 minutes even though I am using a premium pay usenet server.

Thanks for a great script!!!

One question please someone answer!!

When someone replies in a newgroup the message is formatted like this once posted:

>>whats the answer to this question
>>kind regards
>>bill

The reply here

Is there a way to make >> in a quote box?

Has anyone managed to download large groups without hanging?

just upgraded to vb3.5.3

now my cron doesnt work & if i try to run it manually i get a

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /forums/includes/functions_image.php on line 224

also when it does work the new topics dont show up on the forum display?

I think as you have successfully connected to the newsgroup server, this is not a closed port problem. AFAIK, there is no php function that you should enable/disable. For my configuration I just raised up the timeout value so the script dont timeout when importing thousands of usenet articles.

Sorry but I cannot be of much help.

Is there going to be a 'next release'? I'd love to install, but I'd like the attachments to work before installing :D

Well, I sorted out the attachments, now I just have to figure out the thumbnails.

Is this thing supported at all anymore? I understand that people get busy in life and can't always spend the time supporting donated code (thanks to all that do these modifications!), but a small note or unchecking the "Supported" box would end some of the confusion on what to expect.

Thanks for the hack, lierduh. It's a mammoth place to start tweaking from :D

this not working for me in 3.5.3, yet was fine in 3.5.1