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and Thank you very much.. I will do this ..

and 2. Question.

Sometime I try use newnews.pl to get some newgroups posts
but I have try many newsgroups , but why some group I just can not import any news into forum, But I am sure this newsgroup have many posts ??

would you can access newgroup "tw.bbc.comp.linux" or "tw.bbs.comp.hardware" ?? this two chinese newsgroups have many posts everyday . But I just can not import any things ??

[chrispadfield]

Well finally got this installed again and wow, looking brilliant
http://www.ascifi.com/forums2/forumd...hp?forumid=980

couple of things:

i) the merge into new thead for lost posts didn't work and gave this error;

<!-- Database error in vBulletin Control Panel: Invalid SQL: SELECT msgid,subject FROM usenet_article WHERE  ORDER BY dtm ASC LIMIT 1
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'ORDER BY dtm ASC LIMIT 1' at line 1
mysql error number: 1064
Date: Thursday 31st of May 2001 05:37:13 AM
Script: /forums2/admin/usenet.php
Referer: http://www.ascifi.com/forums2/admin/...g1&groupid=980
 -->

i have a feeling this might be because i have an old version of mysql but amnot sure

2. Doing "new threads" instead gives this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/ascifi/www/forums2/admin/usenet.php on line 399

but insert into thread worked like a charm.

3. News server

which one? I need:

i) cheapish, less than $15 per month
ii) no speed restriction, restriction done on monthly bandwidth
iii) does NOT post a footer. This is why i am leaving newsfeeds
iv) decent selection of newsgoups, ie need to be able to check first
v) and preferably uses a 3rd party credit card processor. I don't want to be easily liable for any spam muck ups that someone might attempt to do and get charged $150 an hour "clean up". They wouldn't be able to do this if they use paysystems/instabill which is one of the reasons i like newsfeeds.

Any suggestions?

[chrispadfield]

oh yeah, are you planning on finishing of a "vb2.0 final template set for newsgroups"? would be very cool

[fastforward]

Chris,

The merge into lost threads and all other functions within that option need updating. I made a lot of table structure changes without changing this function. It was low on my priority list as I don't use it I willl get it fixed though.

As for a news feed, I switched to onlynews.com from newsfeeds. They are very fast and have no speed restriction, but the retention is pretty crap (4-5 days) and the number groups is quite low. I'm looking for another one myself. Let me know if you find one.



mobilebbs,

There are several reasons why posts may not get imported.
1) You haven't corrrectly mapped the local forum to the usenet group.
2) The article numbers have somehow got out of synch. (try resetting the numbers to zero for those groups)
3) you are pulling historical posts and have autopurge turned on and set too low. This will cause old posts to be immediately deleted after being imported.
4) The articles are all getting rejected for spam (unlikely)

Originally posted by fastforward
mobilebbs,

There are several reasons why posts may not get imported.
1) You haven't corrrectly mapped the local forum to the usenet group.
2) The article numbers have somehow got out of synch. (try resetting the numbers to zero for those groups)
3) you are pulling historical posts and have autopurge turned on and set too low. This will cause old posts to be immediately deleted after being imported.
4) The articles are all getting rejected for spam (unlikely) [/B]

. Thanks .. Let me try .. Sorry My English is very bad . But Really
Thank for your replys..

For some reason I get a little messed up html code with quoted replies in version 20010528.

Here's what i mean:
<br>
User <name@email.dom> wrote in message<br>
<a href="http://news:somerefnum@somenewserv.dom" target="_blank">news:somerefnum@somnewserv.dom</a>...<br>
<font size="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><font color="blue<br>">>

Which obviously produces a nasty color far from blue.

I don't quite know how to locate the bug...

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Originally posted by v0n
For some reason I get a little messed up html code with quoted replies in version 20010528.

Here's what i mean:
<br>
User <name@email.dom> wrote in message<br>
<a href="http://news:somerefnum@somenewserv.dom" target="_blank">news:somerefnum@somnewserv.dom</a>...<br>
<font size="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><font color="blue<br>">>

Which obviously produces a nasty color far from blue.

I don't quite know how to locate the bug...

There was a change in this section of code to allow for the size setting. However, I don't seem to have this problem on my setup. What other usenet display settings do you have set ie. indents, color etc. I have all set to yes on mine.

All set to yes, wrap 90, quote 1, West Europan-Latin1

[chrispadfield]

finding a news server is a nightmare, an incredibly disorganized and unprofessional looking sector incredibly annoying.

Anyway, realised that spamkiller.newsfeeds does not in fact add any signature so i am going to use that. Paul, why did you switch from newsfeeds? is there something i should know about?

i guess that for us retention does not matter as we are mirroring everything anyway apart from the initial pull of posts which will be less? is that correct?

finally, sorry to nag, are you going to do your template in v2.0 style. There were a lot of updates to the templates i think ):

[fastforward]

Originally posted by chrispadfield
Anyway, realised that spamkiller.newsfeeds does not in fact add any signature so i am going to use that. Paul, why did you switch from newsfeeds? is there something i should know about?

I left them out of principle after they accused me of spamming due to one post that did not have the body in the message, but did have the signature with my url! They didn't actually make the complaint obviously, but they still followed it up.

i guess that for us retention does not matter as we are mirroring everything anyway apart from the initial pull of posts which will be less? is that correct?

True, but I need a newsfeed for home aswell, with binaries and longer retention.

finally, sorry to nag, are you going to do your template in v2.0 style. There were a lot of updates to the templates i think ):

I'm afraid I won't be redoing them until I have finished redoing my britishexpats site. So it could be a month away.