[himerus]

3.) You must use your PHPmyAdmin, or other similar database tool to access the database, and edit the nntp_settings table, and change the value filed to match what you would like. See attachment for settings after I have changed them to match my forum.

4.) In the nntp_groups table, this is where you are going to store the info for the newsgroups you choose to gateway. See the attached image to see what my table looks like after inserting several newsgroups. username & password deleted out obviously.

LAST: you must have a valid newsgroup account with an ISP, or an independant newsgroup provider. I use both Easynews (Read my Review of Easynews) and Teranews (http://www.teranews.com/) as my providers. The teranews account is doing most of the traffic, and I will move all the accounts to easynews once I am sure the system will not cause any problems.

Some newsgroups, you may have to turn on posting on your account in order to be able to post...

I've done a huge hack of the original hack to get this to work for my situation, and it seems to be working properly now... I still have a lot of adjustments to make, and then I will create my own integration into the admincp if the original author hasn't released a new version yet.

There is a lot of great features that could be put into this....

I plan on some further options when setting up newsgroups of how many posts you would like to download, all, specific number, or new posts only.

I would like to put in something that if you have deleted a thread from your forum, and there are later replies to it, that you have the option to either download them, or ignore them, and move on.

This is a great addition to any forum that has newsgroups that are similiar in topic and nature. If you can have some moderators just for that forum to delete spam, porn, and other garbage that gets posted to some of the unmoderated high-traffic groups, then you will add tons of valuable content to your site for nothing more than the cost of a newsgroup account (if you don't already have one)



Hope that helps... just ask any specifics you have on making this work with vB3, because I seemed to have a lot more problems to work through than some of the others in this thread that have it running on vb3... but I figured them all out eventually, and with some added scripts, and classes, it seems to be working great.