Usenet gateway

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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.

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[Mark Hewitt]

I wonder how many people are actually interested in binary posts.

I wouldn't want you to be wasting your time on a feature nobody is interested in?

Well.. with the binaries function Usenet "hack" (no longer should be called that - it's the Whole Development already, *me bows to fastfoward* ) would be an ultimate and scalable news board. With a proper server(s) and maintenance you could create anything from a small hobbyst website to commercial usenet portals.

However, before it gets to that stage, I for example still have problems with newnews.pl - posts never inserted into threads or never retrieved from news servers, posts disapearing when manualy inserted from admin menu to correct threads (they just never appear there) etc..

we should get an own forum for this hack... 36pages... phew...

I lost the discussion on the newsfeeds - can anybody here recommend a cheap service?

[Mark Hewitt]

Originally posted by robertusss
[B]we should get an own forum for this hack... 3

Agreed. It's a pain having to discuss it all in one thread

[NgtCrwlr]

Originally posted by robertusss
we should get an own forum for this hack... 36pages... phew...

I lost the discussion on the newsfeeds - can anybody here recommend a cheap service?

I've been quiet about what I've found on the news feed provider situation because I haven't been able to really test posting yet. I didn't want to get everyone excited and then find out there were a bag full of problems down the road.

Anyway what the heck... you're all big boys and can decide for your selves right? Here's what I came up with... several pages back I started to get paranoid about breaking news server TOS agreements and that led to too many hours sifting through all the crap out there. BUT, I did find what I think may just be the golden needle of the haystack.

I sent Newscene.com several e-mails and received very promising and prompt responses. I signed up for three months at $36.99 and everything seems to be going just great. Aside from the fact that I have not tested posting other than alt.test.test.

The great deal about these guys is they are fully away of what we are doing pull/post accounts and said they have no problem with this. Here's a couple snips:


> I noticed the following in your TOS
> 12. 'Sucking' feeds are prohibited unless authorized. 'Sucking feeds
> will require an additional charge. 'Sucking feeds' will not be provided
> to individual users. Newscene reserves the right to terminate an account
> used for an unauthorized 'sucking feed'.

The "sucking feed" prohibition is mostly a leftover from the days when we offered flat-rate service. It does still apply in some situations--not yours, though, so you can set up with any type of account we offer (see our Pricing page for details). If you expect to pull down only 10 Megabytes per day, then the Standard account (which allows 5 Gigabytes per month) should be more than adequate. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.

> I need to know that Newscene will be understanding in spam issues and
> treat us as a provider and not as an individual, and be willing to work
> with us to solve these problems. Rest assured, we plan to attack spam
> with a vengeance, and we will be willing to do whatever we can to avoid
> problems.

Yes, we're willing to work with you, but because of the way pull/post-style software works, this will be a bit tricky. All of the messages posted at your site will come through tagged with your username when they are posted to our servers. We automatically filter spam at the user level, and if our spam filter is tripped for your account, all of the articles posted from your account will be filtered until we figure out what's going on.
This means there is a possibility that legitimate posts (which are sent in the wake of a wave of spam) may be dropped. If you can live with the shadow of that possibility, then I think everything will be fine.



I also sent http://www.newszilla.com/ the same e-mail questions and they are another candidate at a much higher price though

In the interest of keeping it simple, if you are running your own server and managing user authentication/posting there, we can allow one IP address (your server) to NNTP pull/post for $75 per month. This would be for the group set which you mentioned in your e-mail below. Let me know if we can be of service.

So there ya have it, I've been pulling from Newscene.com (30min cron job) for over a week without problem. I mentioned to the support guy that they may have a number of other vBulletin Gateway users signing up in the near future. They had no problem with that.

Pretty hard to beat at $12.99/mo and knowing that you are being up front with the company and won't be breaking any TOS agreements. http://www.newscene.com/ Add the quick response I got on the inital e-mails and it was a no brainer.

Cheers!

[NgtCrwlr]

Sheez, I guess I got a little carried away there... and forgot to address the FREE feeds. I had very good luck with pubnews.netcom.net.uk (slow but allows posting) and dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu (fast no posting).

http://pubnews.netcom.net.uk
You don't need auth/pw if you don't post, if you want to post you have to register... it's free though.

Cheers!

[Dioxin]

i have two users complaining, that they didn' get a reply on there newsgroup posts.

here is the posting on our forum:

http://www.aktienboard.com/vb/showth...&threadid=5334

and here is a short overview about this newsgroup on newsgate:

http://www.newsgate.ch/de/de.talk.ta...hen/index.html

check out the post from flinx 2000 (Re: Greenpeace erzieht hirnmanipulierte , Flinx2000). he didn't get an answer on our forum, but there exists answers in the newsgroup.

why doesn't the script fetch alle replies?? maybe it is my fault, and i have false options set in the cp....


Please, who can help me fix it? Thank you very much..

Dioxin

Check in
Control Panel --> Usenet --> Groups --> Review/Insert Orphans, you might find some posts sitting there and waiting for manual injection. In my case majority of replies to cross-posted threads get "confused" and end up there...

[Dioxin]

there are a lot of posts to insert.

i think this isn't the best solution. how can i avoid this or why are there so many threads awaiting manual post insertion?

[Dioxin]

has nobody an idea to fix my problem?

there are a lot of posts, that aren't fetched by the script and wait for manual insertion.... what's the error?

please help