The server changes your organization header and inserts advertising, That is the reason why your own posts get imported. You usually should be safe to set it to 0. Are you sure the setting was 0 before your own posts got imported?

I set it to 0 after your suggestion. It appears that the solution you provided worked. Thank you very much for you help.

How about some kind of keyword filter so that if the thread has certain words in it the thread will not get posted. something like that would help the fight against spam.

Also a way to break the posting into a seperate process from the import will help the larger systems out quite a bit.

I have the script up and running on a new vB3.03 install. It seems as though when I d/l posts/threads (from usenet) that my overall post/thread count statistics increment at a 2:1 ratio (the main forums view stats to the right of the individual forums seem normal though). ie, if I were to have downloaded 10k posts my overall post stats would read 20k. Why would posts / threads be double counted in the overall stats (but not on the individual stats)?

This happened both when I initially downloaded threads as well as everytime I d/l additonal posts when the cron job runs.

oh yeah, and non-usenet forums that are strictly local do correctly update the overall and forum specific post/thread count at a 1:1 ratio.

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Just use Giganews, plenty of us are using it for this purpose and it works fine! If you want to use something else than just do a google search for news providers, pretty much any good one is fine to use for the purpose of proving usenet on your forums.

People who spam your usenet forums should be treated the same as people who spam any other section of your site. Just ban them, how you decipline your users have nothing to do with this script.

bump.

Also, I was wondering how we can make posts from the usenet say something other than "guest". I saw on one other site they list the posts as being from "usenet poster".

Go into your admin panel and check the usergroup manager. Edit the usergroup for guests and change the name to whatever you want.

I just thought of this - but setting the sender as

abuse@localhost

might be kind of funny - some of the idiot spammers would collect that address - and start sending spam to the abuse account on their server :)

Sowwy my n00b question, but is anyone using this Hack in vB 3.0.4 ?

I have this currently installed on my production vB 3.0.3, is there anything I should pay attention when I upgrade vB to 3.0.4, do I have to do any additional steps after upgrading to ensure this Hack will continue to work? O_o

Cheers,
w0z