I actually thought it was ready this weekend but I came across a problem when dealing with mailing list archives such as the mailing.database.mysql newsgroup. Because these are posted to via an email program rather than a news client, I need to add more functionality to check for parent posts without relying on the X-References header.

At worst it will be out by Sunday, but as long as I have no major set-backs it should be ready mid to late of this week.

You can see how it's coming along at dBforums.com. You may see it filling up and emptying of posts at random while I'm testing.

There will be no control panel access in this release. I'll try and finish that by the final vB 2.0 but I'm not promising.

Some of the extra stuff that will be in this version are:

• Handling of quoted MIME printable headers (for all those funny foreign characters)
• Correct handling for mailing archive groups
• Color coding and indenting of quotes (customizable via replacement vars)
• vB style quote to usenet style quote conversions
• Usenet posters can be auto-added as special vB users to allow searching and post count tracking (they can easily be converted to real users by changing usergroup).
• email notification to vB users of 'replied to' usenet posts (uses existing vB template)
• Multiple news server support
• plus some other guff that I can't remember.