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NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ), Mailing Lists
Developer Last Online: Nov 2023
The latest version: V2.3.2 (31 Oct 2004)
What is it? This hack provides a gateway from vBulletin forums to the USENET. It allows forum members to read newsgroup messages as well as to send posts to the newsgroups. In a nutshell, it turns vBulletin forums into a basic function news reader. For an added bonus, this package also supports mailing list archive and forum to mailing list gateway. The software retrieves messages from a pop3 account and import them into the forums threaded. It also allows a forums user to send messages to the mailing list by the forum posting interface. Why? The gateway will be appreciated by forum members who do not know how to set up a news reader, or people who do not have port 119 open in their network. A forum interface to read and post news are often considered to be better than a news reader. The gateway adds more contents to your forums and allows the members to interact with wider audience. It is common to see new users signing up to use this feature. History This hack is basically a hacked vB2 NNTP gateway written by Gilby to work with vB3. The original hack can be found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...7&page=1&pp=15 Features Some of the features and improvement include:
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What do you need and do not need? You do not need to edit vB php files if you use two bookmarks You need to edit one vB php file to insert two lines of code if you want direct click links within AdminCP. No need to run SQL. Installation Basically the AdminCP interfaces take care of installation as well as upgrade in the background. Back up your database first. The scripts can modify your database without alerting you! Please follow the instructions in the readme.txt file for more details. Support Please post your support questions to this thread. Please check the FAQ in the third post within this thread first. ================== UPDATES ====================== Jul 31 2004 (release version 2.2.0)
Please note, when you manually run the script, you must turn on the debug mode. Otherwise nothing will be displayed on the screen. To run as debug mode: http://forums.yourdomain.com/gateway.php?debug=1 25 Oct 2004
31 Oct 2004 Fixed bugs running the gateway by the vB3 Scheduled Tasks 1 March 2004 Uploaded the new zip file. It contains one or two bug fixes. Show Your Support
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Here are two more mini-hacks which some may find useful. Thanks to BustaCap for testing the threading-by-subject script and to trackpads for testing the killfile filter.
Threading by Subject Title The threading by subject script works on email lists only, whereby sometimes there are no message references included in the headers, so the only way to match the thread is by the subject title. Now with bugs removed Killfile Filter to block posts The killfile is similar to the equivilent you would find on a newsreader. It allows the admin to block certain messages from downloading if certain words or phrases are met by checking the posters name, subject title, email address or server where they originated. It is a fairly lightweight filter suitable for blocking annoying trolls and needs to used carefully to avoid blocking legitimate posts. Some may find this against the principles of usenet, but it's here if you want it. You can use either or both of these together and are compatible with the stripping of email footers. |
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Does the threading for Mailing lists work correctly now? I installed it the other day and it worked a few times, and then I started getting mysql errors (posted above in this thread)
Also please explain how to set it up to strip document footers. On yahoogroups I would like to keep the ads (I would feel guilty stipping those out) however I would like to remove the instructions on how to unsubscribe to the Yahoogroup that is on the bottom of each message. Thanks |
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that worked for me. We?re connecting to a non-public newsgroup on a buiseness-server, so we?re forced to do this modifications in the header. In german newsgroups you?ld find thousands of people yelling at you if you would participate a newsgroup with Outlook or OutlookExpress. They don?t even call those products "newsreader", they call it "data garbage centrifuge" because of the amount of bugs they are producing while trying to convert header-lines in a proper manner). Most ng-members are using special news-readers like forte agent and others. These software pieces are producing correct headers but can?t read the one?s Outlook is inserting there. lierduh, one problem remains. In Germany they use letters like "?" "?" and "?" (and in capitols also of course). Is there anybody out there who could write some code which would convert these special german letters and other signs into ASCII on the server and in the moment gateway.php is sending the mesages out to the newsgroups ? (for outgoing posts to the newsserver & for incoming) German letters: ? to Ä ? to ä ? to Ö ? to ö ? to Ü ? to ü ? to ß Signs: < to < > to > ? to § ? to © ? to ® & to & ? to · " to +   (Space) We would really appreciate if someone could do this.. Any chance..? :ermm: |
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i noticed that the hack?s only fetching posts (sending them to a newsserver) which are answers. postings which are opening up a new thread aren?t included and they never show up in a newsgroup. Can anyone confirm that for his/her site ? |
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When I first installed this hack I was using the vB cron for running the gateway, with the gateway.php supposed to be run every hour. However, I found that it was only running several times a day for some reason. When I used this method posts would often not show up. To trouble shoot I manually ran gateway.php immediately after posting and I found that all of those posts would be sent. I now use my site cpanel to run the cron job every 10 minutes and all posts show up. Try posting a new thread and then manually run gateway.php and see if that works. |
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And even worse - I can?t run cron jobs in my hosting package :ermm: Any ideas? (beside upgrading the hosting-package..) |
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