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Originally Posted by BustaCap

Two questions:

1. How does the mailing list archive look when it's viewed? Does it look just like how the usenet gateway looks? I'm thinking of archiving a yahoo mailing list and was wondering if it would look like how the usenet posts look (ie, threaded posts). If you reply to a mailing list post, will it be sent to everyone else on the mailing list?

2. I tested the usenet gateway function and it works well on my 3.01 board. However, when I was importing the posts from a group (about 1,000 posts), the reported serverload in my vB CP went through the roof. Before importing they were at 18, 19, 22. During the import they went up to 155, 140, 55. I can't imagine my host is gonna appreciate that since I'm using a shared server. Is there some way you could reduce the load on the server during imports?

1. It will look just like the Usenet messages, threaded. When you make a post to the mailing list forum, it effectively sends an email to the mailing list as your group setting. If the list accepts posts from anyone, you are on.

One thing I will add into the next version is: right now, the "From: " email address is the same format as the USENET ones, ie. it does not contain the real email address due to spam prevention. There should be an option for the mailing list forums to send real email address. Some mailing lists only accept subscribed member's posts.

2. There are many things the script needs to do when importing a message. I doubt there will be much room to improve. You normally do not experience the high server load, because no one is doing the continuing posts one after another for 1000 times. For a start, a server load of 18 is already too high. I am surprised it did not fall apart. You can always only import new messages as per readme.