[Sanjiyan]

Originally Posted by kjhkjh

I have just taken a look at Giganews.

Even paying for service with them seems to open the door to potential problems. Say that someone spams in my forum and this ends up on usenet through Giganews' service:



That could end up pretty pricey.

What is the way around this. What NNTP servers are people currently using this hack with?

Thanks.

You can do what I have done.

The forums that the nttp script uses on my site, are locked from anyone posting to them, as such the script puts posts into a locked forum, the registered users can not reply to them.

Another way of stopping them is via the nntp script settings under the admincp system.

It is called:

Send message to USENET
Default: 1. Set it to 0 if you do not want to send your local posts to the USENET

I have mine set to 0. So even if a user finds away of posting, the reply or post stays local to the forums, its not forwarded onto the news server.

As for a free news server, if your in the UK, then Blueyonder (www.blueyonder.co.uk) have one just search their site for usenet or newsgroup, also check your ISP, 99.999% of all UK based ISPs have some sort of news server they offer as part of the package.