Hi amaarvell,

It is not normal to get few messages in days or even hours.

You can try the following free usenet server : freetext.usenetserver.com ( posting not allowed) no need for username or password to start importing usenet messages.

I thing the gateway.php script is not consistent in it's behavior and it's results.

Right now one of my usenet groups is not updated since May 2nd ,2007 without any known reason from teranews.com or VB.

From admin Control Panel go maintenance and open update counters and rebuild some items there, it might help!.

Also, from admin Control Panel go maintenance and open repair/ optimize tables and repair some tables there, it might help!.

As I told you I am not a coder or programer I am a networking man!

Good Luck!

oh crap .. lol
nightmares upon night mares

it downloaded a lot of posts but 2 and 3 duplicates of each one .. how do i stop it doing that
as i now have to find a way to delete 40,000 duplicate posts

hehehe aint i the lucky one
insodently i used msnews.microsoft.com as a server

Don't panic my friend!

You can do duplicate deletion from VB control Panel - Maintenance- update counters- Delete Duplicate Threads.

This will solve the duplication problem, i guess!

If worked with this freetext.usenetserver.com server then you might have problems with teranews.com.

good luck!

Hy,

ich hoffe hier kann jemand Deutsch und mir weiterhelfen.

habe den Hack installiert und es klappt so weit alles sehr gut. Wenn ich aber nun z.B. a.b.mom auslesen lasse und dann im Forum auf den entsprechenden Beitrag klicke, versucht das Forum z.B. eine gepostetet Datei zu öffnen - was natürlich nicht klappt. Wie kann ich das den einstellen, das z.B. nur die Header ausgelesen werden und nicht die ganzen Dateien ? Oder gibt es z.B. nur die Möglichkeit neue Posts mit der Dateiendeung txt anzeigen zu lassen ?

Gruß

Fenris

I also had this problem until I changed the code in includes/functions_nntp.php

Somewhere around line 591 there should be something like this:
... was changed to ...
After this I didn't have any trouble with it... I'm not sure it's a correct way to fix it, but it at least removes the zero. :)

As someone who has never used USENET at all, let alone attempted to find a good newsgroup or set a forum up to run it I am at a loss here. Installing the mod was simple, of course, but configuring it to actually work is another matter. There are a lot of settings in this thing under Gateway Newsgroups Management and I have no clue where to get the information I need to place in these fields. I found a newsgroup that I want to join but where do I get the info I need to connect to it? I can't find these details anywhere on their site. Do I need to create a sticky thread for this Newsgroup "before" I try adding it? There should really be a guide somewhere on how to set this thing up from ground zero. Not everyone has used USENET before and this readme makes a lot of assumptions that the end user already knows certain basic things.

Same here... Looking for public accessible Usenet server, but unable to find any. There a few paid one i found, alas none free...

Anyone have any server were they could share to use with this great mod ?

Hi,

I've installed everything as instructed in the readme text file. I have setup a new forum and added a NNTP newsgroup. But when I run the gateway.php I get the following error:


The NNTP server address is correct as well as the username and password. The details have been checked with the NNTP reader called Agent and it works fine.

Does anyone know why I am getting this error when using the gateway?

Regards,
Gerald.

Ok, I found what was going on ...... My host (hostgator) was blocking port 119 (NNTP). I've spoken to them and they have now unblocked that port and the script now works perfectly.

Thank you! :)

Cheers ....
Gerald.

Hi,

I have another question. When importing USENET messages, is there a way to set the maximum length of the original posters username?

My board is set to only accept usernames with a maximum length of 25 characters, but when importing USENET messages this setting is overwritten. How can I tunicate the usernames?

Regards,
Gerald.