Been there, tried that, it doesn't work. :ermm:

Does anyone have a forum with this hack working? I'd like to see it in action.

I do.

http://pointbeing.com

Got it threading properly thanks to lierduh's fix.

One small thing, though - look at his code. There are about four instances of

"allowsmili e,showsignature"

and the extra spaces will throw SQL errors if you don't catch them all. I missed two of them and had to go back and edit stuff again but once I got that fixed I replied to a couple posts and checked the threads with Agent - and they showed up in the right spots.

Thanks again, lierduh - I've always liked this hack and you just made it better.

There's only one other problem I've seen and I mentioned it before but the non-RFC-compliant signature separator causes problems for some newsreaders - some of them won't strip the signature out of quoted text because the signature separator isn't quite legal.

If someone is interested in fixing that small issue for their own Usenet gateway, an RFC-compliant signature separator is <linefeed><dash><dash><space><linefeed>

Here's the fix if anyone's interested:

In gateway.php, find both instances of

$signature = "\n--\n";

(line 542 and line 554), and replace with

$signature = "\n-- \n";

Now that I've got those two things fixed the hack's gone from great to awesome. Thanks, gents!

Very nice, the usenet posts look like every other post in your forum. Now, how to get it working in version 3. :)

Looks like the forum has added the extra spaces. When I tried to edit my post and remove the space, they are not there. :ermm:

Weird.

I didn't think maybe it could be the forum. Sorry about blaming your code, lierduh.

BTW - thanks for fixing things. This hack is a lot better now that it threads properly :)

I thried this hack sometime ago and I decided against using it because it setup a new user account for each post received from the NNTP gateway. Does this hack still do that?

If so, is there a way to not setup accounts for each post? I would much rather have the messages come in without user accounts, makes maintaining my user database a bit of a nightmare with thousands of unused accounts.

Dennis

It doesn't do that now, Dennis. Usenet posts come in under a guest account.

I can't find the answer to this...Found it! Thank you patvdv on page 23 of this thread