[www.tourc.ca]

crontab is working and the hack is running flawlessy. Simply Amazing! I love it.

just a thought on a feature:
having seperate expire days value for each group

this would be great for those groups that get very little posts, but have good information that would be worth saving for later reference, you could have a high expire day value for them, but groups with huge amounts of posts could be set with a lower expire date value!

just a thought!

has anyone run a larger number of groups with this hack and had indexing enabled!

I tested it with indexing enabled and my searchindex table started getting really large, so its disabled for now, but I'm really missing being able to search the newsgroups through my forums.

does anyone have any kind of aprox. statistics of their site and how big their searchindex tables get and how it might effect performance and/or any other issues that might arise!

hmmm.. now the mundane task of sifting through the groups for spam and making spam filters... yeah!... I'm sure I'll be back with some questions regarding this!

great hack fastforward!

if anyone is currently using this hack on their forums, post the link I wouldn't mind taking a look at how you set it up (template wise). I'm running a seperate template as recommended by fastforward, and would like some ideas. (I love the dbforums look).

if you want to see the usenet gateway working on a site other than www.dbforums.com you can see it at www.tourc.com and use the username: testuser with the same password!

cheers!

note: to anyone first installing this hack be warned, when I was installing and searching the newsgroups I came across a group where someone from another forum was trying to install the same hack, he was successfull in doing so, but during his first run of the script not only did he pull all of the news articles, but he posted all of the thousands of threads he had in that forum to the newsgroup. He got flamed pretty bad, and it is affecting the usefullness of his forums on usenet... It's probably a good idea to create a new group for each newsgroup and not use existing forums! just a warning!