You are better off paying for a provider... 1) faster 2) larger sellection of news groups 3) you get what you pay for :).

You can find NTTP services for 5-10 dollars per month :).

I seem to be having two problems, one of which may be time related.

#1 attachments (pictures) from a binary newsgroup (alt.binaries.3d.lightwave) are coming through as UUE code.


#2 I have given my test post, from my forum, 30 minutes and it has not yet shown up in the newsgroup. It typically takes ~5 minutes.

Any thoughts? I installed the basic 2.x hack and then re-hacked with the new VB3 additions and new gateway.php file.

Currently running VB 3.0.1

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Images tend to get coded in two main formats, only one of which is supported by this hack. I have a couple of UU-decode scripts written in PHP which I have tried to integrate with this script with only partial success. My PHP is limited so I couldn't figure out the final issues. (Any volunteers who are familiar with the gateway script want to look at it?)

While testing this script, I also came across a 3rd type of encoding (a MAC verison) which would also need to be decoded. Other things to take into account with downloading binaries is that your db will grow very quickly. I was intending to try and integrate another VB hack that stores attachments as files instead of within the db with this script so it just takes up disk space instead.

Okay... so, essentially, binaries are not supported. I guess I was misled by the information given with the 1st hack. This isn't too much of a setback... but it sure would be awesome if we could get binary images to come through. I guess yEnc and the Mac format would have to be included.

What about my posts not showing up in the group? I did a test posting from my forum... and then later tried to view it using Outlook Express. (as I normally view the groups) Nothing appeared.

thanks

well... if someone fingers it out, please post the fix here. i have the same prob.,

Hey, lierduh -

After working flawlessly for almost a year the script just quit. My gateway runs every 15 minutes and has only connected properly once in the last 24 hours. Running it manually, verbose output looks like this:No articles are pulled and the thing stalls logging in to the last group.

I'm stumped - any thoughts? Provider is Giganews and Agent works fine.

Is there a chance, that new postings from the NGs does not show up as "new posts" in the new posts link?

I'm afraid not - the script is failing.

Using the nntp.php that provides verbose output above, you should see where the script is pulling articles - it's not pulling any, has only worked correctly once in the last 24 hours and is stalling at the 4th newsgroup.

Too weird.

[high]* Bro_Joey_Gowdy waits impatiently for an official vb3 NNTP Gateway[/high]

The script works for me. Just a few errors, as double postings. The problem is that this the NG posts are listed as new posts, our members have no difference between NG posts and forumposts