I'd like to weigh in here if folks don't mind.

Except for the .moderated newsgroups, Usenet is completely unmoderated - you can certainly do whatever you like with your forum, but IM frequently less than HO moderating an unmoderated newsgroup goes pretty much against what Usenet is all about.

What I do is run a disclaimer as an announcement at the top of the Usenet forums that reads like this -

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Folks -

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Usenet, the best description I've seen is at

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1

and

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part2

No one "owns" Usenet and the groups that are gatewayed into ebassist are completely unmoderated. The feed that we provide is a service to ebassist users, and is just a gateway into another discussion area. You're liable to see flaming, links to ads and porn sites and a whole bunch of really objectionable stuff if you look hard enough.

But, as you continue to look, you'll see some real gems of information and some *very* knowledgeable folks.

Once again, ebassist doesn't own Usenet, has no control over its content and the feeds are provided without any interference (or moderation) from the folks on ebassist dot com.

Usenet can be harsh at times - and it's definitely not for the fainthearted, but I think providing an uncensored newsfeed provides more of a service to the ebassist community than filtering content would.

To sum things up, internal forums on ebassist dot com are moderated. External feeds like Usenet are not. Read at your own risk :)

the management

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But - it's your board and your call ;)

In the 'attachments' menu on the control panel there is an 'attachments storage type' option, which enables you to store the attachments as files rather than in the db.

When this option is used, the link to the attachment in the post breaks (although the file still gets downloaded to the db, the script is searching for the file in folder ont eh server). Hope this makes sense.

No problem, have some sleep first.... :nervous: !

More information please. Is this the first time you run? how many posts roughly are we talking about importing? I have set the script maximum run time to 1800 seconds. If you can not import the whole lot, restart again, it will pick up where the last run left off. This is one of the features this new version has. Also how is your server load. Can it handle a lot of posts to be imported in one go? With each post imported, the server needs to build search index and it is resource intensive.

i have to run the script about 3 times and to get all of the information. I am still planning on adding more newsgroups to the site.


by the way i used the script to import about 30,487 post and it work fine. The only probem i had is everytime it did it is i have to change the "Is Gateway Running" option to 0 each time. My server load only went up to 2.0 which is 100% on both cpu.

lierduh, you've released 2 updates already. Did you make any changes to gateway.php, or are the updates purely for the AdminCP?

The two beta files are only the AdminCP interfaces. The main script has been not updated since the ___b.zip .

I will do something tonight to add the signature option routine and may be others.

A few questions....

I am still running vb2.3.0, and gilby's version of this hack, the reason for staying with vb2.3.0 is because of the lack of a 'suitable' nntp hack addon, which you have now provided, so as long as it works with what I am about to ask, I shall update my forums to vb3.0.1

WIll this allow/import/whatever gilby's database modifications? as is from gilby's own version for vb2

Also as gilby's version allows me to pull from both NNTP and a pop3 mail box (downloads posts etc from a mailing list), will this version also allow it?

I do not use the pop3 to post from the forums to the mailing list, but to pull from the mail server the posts and then put them into the forums.

If you want to know what I mean about pulling posts from a pop3 mail box, please go here, and view the subforums, I have and the comments below explaining what they are:

http://www.sanjiyan.co.uk/forums/for...php?forumid=35

Many thanks...

There is one extra field in the post table needed. The first time you open the AdminCP interface, it will detect what needs to be done and upgrade for you. This will also be the way it works with future upgrade.

I have disabled this because I have not checked whether it will work. Also no one else has mentioned the need to use this. I will have a look at it in the next few days and enable it in the next minor version. It is something pretty simple.

Thanks, because the pop3 function is something I rely very heavily on with this hack, as 40% of my need for this hack is for the pop3 mail pulling ability.

EDIT:

Also which file do I need to download? the nntp_gateway_v2.0.zip or vb3_NNTP_Gateway_May16b.zip

Not trying to be big headed here, but the reason this option was put into the Gilby hack, was mainly because I asked it to be, I think to date no one else uses that function in the hack bar me, but it is a very nice function to have.

Anyway, can not wait for you to get this option working again, THEN I will upgrade my boards.