Hello

I think the script works much better if it's run using plain cron, not vB scheduler. If i run it through vB scheduler and ouput some variables inside it they are NULL or have strange values.

Also i think one of the problems is not unique msgids. Now i'm using seconds since epoch + microseconds + user name and it helps.

Hope it will help someone

Just remove posting privileges in the forums where you don't want users to post :)

Is anyone else having problems with A Small Orange and Giganews? I got an email from someone else saying their Usenet forums stopped receving posts so I checked mine - nothing new since May 21.

ASO is fixed. They stood up a new firewall and forgot to open port 119 ;)

I assume I am thinking this hack is something other then what it is. I set it to grab group alt.binares.dvdr well that was a mistake. Is there a a way to get it to grab just the headers or something not the whole attachment that is just a bunch of garbage in the post casue it showed up like ASADJJKMSDA><MDSNDLSDJMD>SAD witch i feel sure is the rar file just not as a atachment. I guess basicly I was thinking it would something like newzbin where it just showed the headers. ( altho would be nice if you could make it so it would make a nzb file to download. ) Do I have this hack all wrong in my head?

Sorry if this has been asked already. I am in the process of setting my site up and importing a lot of newgroup posts. Every once in a while it will just stop for no reason and give no error at all. Then I can change the last run time and start it again.

Any idea what this could be?

Is there a way to support one mailing list email (eg: 1 Yahoo group) going to different forums via the prefix option? Can I remove the database uniqueness restriction on this field (NEWSGROUP in NNTP_GROUPS table) or are there any other ways around this ???

TIA -Xuan

How do I make it look for new post. Also do I have to have the last message ID if I am just starting this hack up for the first time?

The time the script will execute before timing out is controlled by your host in the php.ini file.

If you have a low timeout time it can be a pain doing the first import, you could always use the crontab and leave it for a day to do itself.

It will only look for new posts if you put it on crontab or manually run it via the gateway file.

You don't need a last message ID for the first run, it'll fill that in automatically after.