If the user clicks the Big Reply button, the posts will be threaded to the top message. If the Quote button is pushed, the post will be threaded under the one which one is replying.

I have some advanced gateway tweaking guide which automatically hides the big Reply button for USENET forums. I will post it somewhere later. The method needs to change vB php code, hence the advanced title.

Sounds good, I got around this by creating another style for usenet forums and commenting out the big replyto button. I just find some post don't thread properly :devious: dunno whats causing it.

is anyone pruning their usenetgroup forum

my group has pulled about 160,000 posts so far and it keeps increasing - im fairly pleased with this in one respect in that the search engines will have plenty of pages to keep them busy which should hopefully increase traffic

however, the more and more posts there are the larger my database will be which means that backing up will be a pain just now but if i leave it as it is for a few months id have to back up a forum of millions of posts - not good

whats everyone else doing about this?

Slightly different request

Does the thread by subject query exist somehwre as a seperate item that can be run on existing forums?

What I mean is, does a query exist to run on the currently non-threaded posts in the forum to thread them?

Would be nice to tidy up the posts currently existing while threading by subject was not available. Manually doing it would be a terrible task ....

John

I am using 2.2.1 but I have a question, is there away for it to when it posts to the forums, to use the date it was posted to usenet and not the time it was posted to the forums?

I prefer to have the posts (time/date stamp) to be relative to the time/date it was posted originally to usenet, and not the time/date the script posted it to the website (forums)

fantastic job on the upgrade!!!:up:

Hello.

I am very frustrated. I'd so love to install this mod but it does not work for me.

I have done what you recommended in post #3 about adding a new value to the registry key. But that did not change anything either. I still get this error:

Gateway version 2.2.1 1 group(s) gatewayed.
Could not connect to NNTP-serverNot connectedNot connected

I also do not have access to ssh or telnet so I cannot test it there either.

So, I am hoping that perhaps you have any info or tipps for this or is my case hopeless?

I do not run vb in debug mode. Is that the problem?

Thanks for any advice/help. :)

There is nothing one could help you.:)

It basically means the script can not connect to the server. Either you entered the server wrong, or your web server does not allow you to connect on port 119. Perhaps email your host will get more information.

Too many options starting to become a problem.:)

If you go through the settings control panel, you will find the setting for this.

I just checked your forums, the messages seem to be threaded together probably. Are you sure those two messages were not imported before you turned on the option?

If you see AW (what language?) as a common reply prefix, you you simply add AW: to the existing re: fw: line in gateway.php. That will be easy to hack.