Do you mean, instead of a thread, you'd create a pseudo-thread that would actually link to the news story?
That'd involve some hacking of vB I think, more than just an add-on
Or do you just mean having a new thread for each news item, with the subject = headline and posttext = link to article?
That'd be easy enough to do I'd say, in the loop where it says:
if ($jitemheadline != "") {
...
}
you'd post a new thread and post for each headline instead of one big thread and post with all headlines after the loop.
John.
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