The post just doesn't appear in the newsgroup!, i don't know how else to explain it.

It seems i can post in the other microsoft newgroups from my forum but just not to microsoft.public.excel.programming any ideas on a work around?

What happens if you post with a newsreader? Does it work?

Yep i can post fine using outlook , its quite strange!

Quick update: it seems that if i make a post in the forum whilst viewing the forum through firefox it posts to the microsoft newsgroup if i use IE it does not anyone know of how to tweak the code to accommodate both?

Ehm.. question: does anybody get this working with the nntp server autentication?

Thank you very much! (and sorry for cross posting..)

I have a serius problem: script post 2 time the same post in the same thread! What happens?

Thank you!!!

Fixed. It was simple due the script run twice..

Does anybody have do a shell script to avoid this?
Thanks!

It should check whether or not its running via the is_running variable in the NNTP Settings of the control panel. However, I've had what you describe happen to me some years ago. What we have done since as a preventative measure is to do a quick restart of apache (just takes a second) and that makes sure any of its processes are killed.

-- Rik

Via our killfile we have blocked all urls over the years to prevent spam. Since our killfile has grown so large and probably blocks most spam and trash anyway, we are considering removing the blockage of urls from it and then post-process posts via mysql to remove any "non-approved" urls. We're probably going to try this on one newsgroup initially.

Our idea is to tag approved messages with some sort of marker at the last byte of the post if the url is OK. If the marker is not there and a url exists, the post would later get deleted.

Is anyone doing something like this with the mod? If so, what are your thoughts on the the matter (or am I just opening up a floodgate of spam)?

Thanks. -- Rik