I'm adding that feature right now. It will work exactly as you suggest. It will only send an email once for every usenet batch pull. If you get 3 messages in the thread during a batch, only one mail will be sent to each user. Then if the next batch contains a message, it will send another email.

I'm trying to figure out how to use the existing vb template for email from within the perl script at the moment.

I'm also adding a feature to allow vb style quotes for usenet messages. It will mean you can choose italics or the <QUOTE> method. The choice will really depend on the newsgroup and whether the majority of posters use sensible news programs that apply quotations correctly.

regards

i would imagine this is something that is going to change a bit with vb2 with the whole vbhome type thing so hope not too hard to change over, glad you are implementing this though :) cool.

i don't think the whole (quote) and (/quote) thing will work too well, the problem is often that the lines of text get cut off so you get something like

> sdgfasdfgksdgfjdsgkdskgfjsdgjdkg nmfg dsfn mcnv bmcxvn bmxcvnb
df
> sdgfdsfgsdkjgfdksgf kdjfg kdfg dfn gmdfng dng mdfng mdfgn
dsdf
> skf skdg dmfg dkg kdfg dfgdf,gnsdfmgdsfgmsdgf
>

which really does not look good.

I just wonder if there is any clever logic that could be used more than the > line to take into these situations into account? i will have a think about it.

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it is also the one time that i wish that vb allowed threaded listings like wwwthreads :)

oh the other thing was being able to use more than one usenet server.

The way i could see this being done is having a table containing usenet information,

ID
server address
username
password

etc.

and then for each newsgroup you have an extra column for server id. something like that.

if possible i would really like it, there is this newsgroup i really want to include but it is only avaliable on one server.

any help on where I can obtain a news feed from, cheap as possible please :)

My favourites are:

OnlyNews for $12.95 with as they don't throttle download speeds.

or

Newfeeds as they have a whole bunch of different servers to choose from.

but

If you're talking about a traditional IHave feed for your own news server then you are looking at a minimum of $200/mth.

Due to popular request... well 2 requests, I have cleaned up and released a new version of the usenet gateway script.

Some of the new features are:

• email notification to usenet replies
• emoticon translation into vb icons
• hyperlinked urls in messages
• italicized quotes
• support for xrover
• logging of outgoing posts

In addition, the code has been completely re-written and is much cleaner (at least I think so).

Some things planned for the version 2 release

• support for multiple news servers
• canceling of messages after they have been sent to usenet
• treating usenet posters as special members so that posts are counted and can be searched by username
• control panel integration

The url for the latest version is usenet_gateway_v115.tar.gz

regards
PAJ

Will this usenet gateway be included in vb2.0?

No, but this hack is being ported over.

cool fastforward, it is looking really great. I am looking forward to the vb2.0 version ;)