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This is the first release of the new style usenet gateway that works without any code edits but allows you to optionally integrate it more tightly into vB by making code edits. You can make as many or as few code edits as you like. The script will still work.

This release details enough edits to bring back the functionality that was stripped out in the last release. More integration/options will be added as and when people request them. Two of my next features will be the ability to download from the binary groups and provide a link to the file from the description usually found in the '01' section of the usenet article and an option to recieve email from usenet via the PM system.

Here's what this one can do:

Without code changes:

• full control panel integration
• email notification to usenet replies
• emoticon translation into vb icons
• vb code removal or conversion prior to posting to usenet
• hyperlinked urls in messages & color coded and italicized posts
• vB style quote to usenet style quote conversions for outgoing posts
• logging of outgoing posts
• support for multiple news servers
• support for seperate footers per forum in outgoing posts
• multi-language (selectable) handling of quoted MIME printable headers (for all those funny foreign characters)
• flexible spam control and replacement variable options for both incoming and outgoing messages
• configurable auto-purge option
• global option for users to show their email address if user has selected that his/her email be displayed normally
• global option to enable/disable user signatures on outgoing posts.
• referencing usenet post count in templates (total posts will also include usenet posts)
• optional time source for usenet posts (time entered into forum vs time user posted to usenet)
• option to turn off indexing for usenet posts

With replacement variables and/or template changes:

• user selectable email address in their outgoing usenet posts (may be different than normal one in profile)
• suppression of unnecessary info in usenet posts, ie location, post count etc.
• configurable indented quotes in incoming usenet posts

With code changes:

• suppression of usenet post count from totals in templates
• auto refresh of global usenet variables to ensure post counts etc are always up to date
• optional suppression of usenet post count from totals in stats
• better ordering and sequencing of usenet posts when using the NNTP posting date as time source
• the 'last active' thread hack a la UBB.

Download the latest version

Once again it's late and I'm tired, so treat this release with care. Let me know of any bugs asap and I can release a true 'release version' to coincide with the vB final. You'll probably notice I've changed the version number to date. With the frequency of updates this makes more sense and is easier to track... maybe

I also intend to move this hack and all discussion over to vbdev.org at the next release.

The latest version of this hack will always be in this first post of the thread.