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Update - with Yahoo Groups, the gateway seems to be working flawlessly. The update from RC 1 to RC 2 didn't affect anything. I don't have a report on threading yet, since all the recent posts on the Yahoo group I'm gatewaying seem to be announcements.

A caveat: those using the extension should be aware that maintaining the subforum on the message board side takes a lot of work; there's cleaning up Yahoo-inserted message footers, out of office notifications, long legal disclaimers, and other text normally not found in message board posts. It's not too bad for slow lists, but for fast lists, it may take more moderation work than what would be encountered in a non-gatewayed group. For the gatewayed groups, I'm including this message below the page header:

To keep threads in this subforum readable, moderators may edit excessive backquoting, e-mail confidentiality notices and other legal disclaimers, and advertising inserted by the e-mail or mailing list server. They may also delete spam, out-of-office and similar notifications, and off-topic messages that are gatewayed from the mailing list.

See http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=34

Thanks for a great script!

Originally Posted by PhillipH

hm. anyone know if its possible to use google usenets? if so, the settings would be? thanks.

I don't think Google is possible, unless there's a mail gateway of some sort. Maybe group alerts for Usenet --> vBulletin, but the other way around? I don't know.

You could try free NNTP servers -- there are many out there -- but odds are they'll be read-only. You probably won't be able to use your ISP's NNTP server because it'll be accessed from your Web host; most ISPs won't allow their NNTP servers to be accessed from an IP range outside what is assigned to that ISP.

If you really want to gateway with a Usenet group, your best bet is a cheap NNTP account with Giganews, EasyNews, or a similar Usenet provider, where you have full access to the NNTP server from any IP.