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This hack has undergone many major changes since this thread was started. Consequently, most of the posts have become dated and of little use. To coincide with the latest major release (20010712), a new one has been started.

See this thread for the latest version and discussion

[Stephan Whelan]

Just an update...

I'm still reloading articles into my forums...(I run 12 newsgroups off vB and some of them are pretty active...)

It looks like i'm almost there and no problems seem to have been encountered yet. I can't tell how much time the Orphaned Check adds to my inserts but i'll do some tests.

Finally, how often are people running cron jobs to update their boards? I was setting mine to around one per hour...

[fastforward]

I'm running mine once an hour too. With the new code that ensures all possible replies are inserted at each batch, it's no longer necessary to stay 'ahead' of the newsgroup. (As long as you update more often than your expire date is set to )

I've found some more bugs I'm afraid. The main one has to do with the regular expression parsing of the spam filters. I believe I've also fixed the problem Gilby brought up regarding forum generated posts. There was also a small issue that could cause posts to be displayed in the wrong order if a thread contained both usenet posts and forum posts.

The good news is they're all fixed and I've also added an auto purge function.

I'll release it as soon as I've done a bit more testing. In the meantime, if your regular expressions don't appear to work, don't worry, it's not a result of your regex skills.

[TechTalk]

This sounds really interesting, but I dont install hacks because I like to upgrade and we all know its not fun with hacks installed.

My question is, is there any chance this will make it into 2.1? Also would you be willing to let John use the code so they can get this rolling?

I have heard talk about usenet being added before but I wasnt sure when it would take place.

Thanks
~Chris

Sorry, i didn't read the whole thread so please don't kill me if anyone has asked this before:
Is there a way to run the script on a server without having access to telnet and cron? Perhaps triggering the script every time the forums title page is loaded or something like that. i only have FTP access to my webspace account
I already contaced the sysob of my server but he said that he won't install the perl script for me

Originally posted by LtData
Sorry, i didn't read the whole thread ...

like I said earlier, you should open new threads when a new version comes out (from 1.x to 2.x) and have a moderator close the old thread...

[chrispadfield]

- LTdata

options:

1. Get a new host. If you are paying more than $10/month there is no way you should be without telnet access. I think you need to install some perl modules to get it working anyway (see first post) so without telnet access you would not be able to get it to work.

2. Try the telnet emulators out there, try www.tucows.com to see if one will do what you want.

Jelsoft inclusion in 2.1

Unfortunatly i doubt they will do this, mainly because it is a flipping hard script to support - just look at this thread! but it would certainly be cool if they did. I can't wait until the final so I upgrade and then install this hack first thing!

[fastforward]

This release adds a couple of new features and fixes a few bugs.
New Features:

• Added auto purge feature. (configurable via control panel)
• Added Gilby's mod to manually review/insert orphan replies (Thanks Gilby)
• Added additional option in spam & replace filters to allow operation in multi-line mode ('s' switch). There should be *nothing* you can't filter out of your messages now!

Bug Fixes:

1. Fixed problem with escaping of spam and replace filters when treated as regular expressions
2. Fixed problem of forum posts being sent without msgid of parent post if parent was also a forum post.
3. Tidied up indexes (again)
4. Fixed display ordering problem when usenet and forum posts are in same thread
5. A few other little things that forgot to write down.

Download version 2.7 for vB 2.0 beta 5

To upgrade from 2.6 you will need to run some SQL statements and make additional code changes. These are detailed in UPGRADE.txt.

[TechTalk]

You really should open a new thread....why post multiple versions in the same thread????

[fastforward]

Originally posted by TechTalk
You really should open a new thread....why post multiple versions in the same thread????

Because then there would be 20 or 30 different threads floating around. At least this way everything is one place. You can guarantee people would be posting in older threads if there were more than one. If people come across an old thread in a search or something, how do they know there's a new one? They then have to go searching backwards through all the hacks making sure they are reading the latest thread.

As mentioned in frequent posts, the latest version is always in the first post of this thread along with description, screenshots etc.

New readers to the thread will read the first post, see this statement then, if they want, they can read backwards from the end to see what's been happening recently.

[TechTalk]

Every time i have tried to view the examples or download the file, both http://britishexpats.com and http://www.dbforums.com are down

~Chris