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fastforward, i would recommend a search at deja to try and find out which newsgroups it was in, we may be able to narrow it down for you.

ok it only came up with 4:

http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=b...ncurrent&DBS=2

they must have deleted the rest?

Thanks Chris

Those are all good posts. Well the non-test ones are anyway. There was also a bunch more I posted to 01alt.test, but they should be ok. I mean that's what test groups are for right? Surely they couldn't be construed as spam.

i seriously doubt it, what did hostpro actually tell you? did they say which newsgroup or what? if they didn't then ask them, it could very well be some competing website that just sent them an email saying you where. I bet they didn't even check it themselves.

Unfortunatly because we all hate spam so much some people are too quick to blame people who do nothing wrong. It dosen't appear anyone else would have done it i think most are waiting for vb 2.0 before they play with this so i would think it is just someone being a pain.

p.s. you using http://www.newsfeeds.com - not happy about them, their article numbers on the front are their goliath server, huge huge difference to their other spamkillers server which has massivly less posts in it. Probably why we end up with so many in the temp table when really there should not be that many (how many news threads go on for more than a month say and they should have a months worth of posts). Have to cancel my account to re-sign up on the goliath server. akk...

Yeah, I did ask hostpro. But the girl who sent the email has left for the weekend. The only thing in their notes was something about spamming newsgroups. No details. I just realized though; the organization field also contains my site address. There's no way to search for that though. I guess I'll just have to wait until Monday.

As for the spamkiller server problem. I did try goliath, but it was way too slow. I even tried the one reserved for platinum account holders. Spamkiller was by far the fastest.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

By the way, I've made a lot of changes to the script. It now italicizes quotes from usenet messages (we'll have to wait for v2 for colours. I also fixed a threading problem when a local reply is made to a locally started usenet thread. The problem was the message id does not exist until the message reaches usenet. I added some logic to update the local message with the message id on the next pull. Unfortunately I had to add some more fields to the tables and also renamed a few fields. You'd have to reinstall and re-pull history if you wanted it. Or you can wait for the version 2 release. The code is a lot tidier now. Let me know if you want a copy.

regards

sounds very cool, i will wait until v2.0 to try again, i was really just trying it out and playing around with it first and it is going to be really great feature for my site i know!

on the whole newserver thing, they have a new on called goliath2 which they say is a lot faster, it also has more files in it as well, did you every try that one? i am uite keen on getting as many threads to start with as possible.

otherwise i wonder what other companies are good. One thing i like about this one is that they don't actually have your credit card details but use that external comapny. This means if they do try and do their trumped up $50/hour spam removal charges if one of our users does something silly or whatever then they can't actually charge me, something i am a bit worried about.

anyway, looking forward to the v2.0 release of this

I really want to try this on my board. but I need to ask a couple things firsrt.

Where exactly would the newfeeed come from, would I have to pay for this or can I get it for free.

When installing the cpan modules, could I damage my server at all??

And lastly, the d/l link wont work, can someone email it to me? Cheers <G>

newfeeds.com you pay for. You can try to find free ones but good luck in your search (search for free usenet at dmoz.com for sites on it).

downloading cpan modules, i doubt it but don't know. I have never had any problem before however with these i think it tried to install perl again somewhere, i cancelled it and nothing appeared to go wrong although i probably have a few pointless files somewhere. That probably does not inspire you with confidance but i have installed quite a few modules this way and never ever had a problem and this was probably me just not understand what was going on so i wouldn't worry. Otherwise just use the modules in the file.

Can't send it to you, it has probably been taken down to sort the headers and things out.

I've never had problems with CPAN. The attempted re-install of Perl that chris is talking about was probably while installing netlib. If it finds it is already installed it will ask a whole bunch of questions regaring smtp servers and host names etc. Most of the modules will most likely be already installed if it is a managed server. The modules already on HostPros vservers were

DBI
DBD:MySQL
Date::Parse (part of the DateTime package)
Net::NNTP (part of the netlib package)
Net::SMTP (part of the netlib package)

So I only had to install one module:
Text::Autoformat

By the way. The download link is broken while I had email notification for replies and italicized quotes. There's a few other fixes too. I'm modularizing it so it will be easy to just drop in the section for vb2 without redownloading and reloading all the posts.

regards

fastfoward,

any plans for the email notication idea:

basically, someone in usenet starts a thread, member a comes along to forums and posts, a usenet member then posts a reply which gets uploaded to the forum. I then want it to notify agent a.

how?

well, i guess it could work like.

while it moves posts from the temp to the actual post section, it does a search for all the members who posted in that thread who have email notification on and sends them the email.

The only problem i can see with that approach is if you get two posts from usenet to the same thread, how to stop it sending two emails.

perhaps you have a better idea?