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Sorry I didn't see these posts. I don't seem to get emails from this board anymore. No idea why.

I have been running the new version of this hack on my boards for a couple of months now. It's more robust than the old version and puts less load on the server. It's object oriented as promised and upgrades or addons will be easier.

I still haven't done the indexing routine yet (I don't use it as I use full text indexes). I do intend to do it though. Also the auto expire is not done, but that's easy.

The reason I haven't yet released it yet is that there are huge changes to the database structure and an utomatic upgrade could be be dangerous. The biggest changes are that the message id has been taken out of the post table a new flag colum is added to identify the status . For this reason, I think it would be better to wait until vB version 3 is out as that may require more changes to take advantage of the threading.

However, if anybody wants to empty out their existing usenet posts and start over, I will write the installation instructions this weekend and post it. The current vB module has been tested on versions 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8.