Well, I have found a something...it posts the first message to USENET in a thread if I post a thread in my forum, but not subsequent ones.

I'm not sure I understand this. It shouldn't be trying to download anything from here.

It sure is :)

My users don't like searching Usenet forums from a regular forum search, though. The way mine's set up, navbar searches for *new* posts don't include Usenet but regular and advanced searches do.

It's already in there. Take a look at gateway.php and you'll see the signature routine. Mine are disabled for Usenet but the feature works just fine.

Not that I know of - it'd be fairly simple to do with a query, though.

jcrash, look at post #351 on page 24 of this thread. There's a version of nntp.php that does verbose output - you should be able to troubleshoot from there. Maybe it'll tell you where the problem is.

There was already someone with the same problem:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...945#post451945

Thanks for the info, it's very useful :) For some reason the content of the posts I imported aren't searchable yet but this may be related to the fact I didn't let it finish the import because of the browser's behavior.

stroke, maybe you could think about this one for a bit before you implement it.

Posting to Usenet with a real email address will dramatically increase the amount of spam your users receive - and maybe your users won't be quite so grateful ;-)

I run my own mail server and the spam problem got bad enough that I finally altered the script to goober up the *domain* name instead of the username.

I have about five regular Usenet posters - and about three months after I installed the gateway the amount of spam my mail server received more than doubled. Spoofing the domain name instead of the username solved that problem.

Ah. I gotcha now :)

I'm not sure whether this is a browser or a webserver problem. The browser clearly knows what to do with php content or the user couldn't read or post here. Maybe gateway.php was uploaded as binary instead of ASCII? I'm just guessing, though :)

Contents of your Usenet forums should be searchable - you can look at my forum if you like. You should be able to search as an unregistered user -

http://ebassist.com

cheers -

Cool info there. I'm still somewhat holding back on testing this gateway thing first before applying it to my live forum. So is this domain spoofing thing is being done by default?

I uploaded it through SCP. I don't think that there's a problem with the file itself since it is importing, but it tries to make me download the file's output or something.

No - by default it spoofs the *username* but leaves the domain name intact.

That's kinda strange. I guess I'd look at browser settings, then.

I assume so too. I'm installing lynx on my box so it won't matter all that much. Sorry for the newbie question but which changes do I have to make to spoof the domain name instead?

Don't worry about it - the only dumb question is an unasked one ;)

This one I might have to give you when I get home - I can't run phpmyadmin on my work network, but I believe I spoofed the domain name in the database itself.