Aha!!!
I have lynx, and I use that to run my USENET crontab, so there you go, this is going to work - I did try it with yours, but I did not put the TERM variable in.
Will let you know if it does work.
Downloaded and using the new news2vb.php file - the output is heaps better! Thanks!
Just one small bug:
You have $yourvbdir at the top but $yourvburl in the code.
Change the $vbdir to $vburl or vice versa for the "Discuss" links to work.
Thanks heaps!