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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:
Future development
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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Do you know of any free ones?
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No, unfortunately I don't. Though I'm sure that if you search Google for "free NNTP usenet" you'll find some. Here's one I found a few days ago: http://news.individual.net
They're free. I registered with them to use as a backup news server. They need to manually set-up your account, I registered a few days ago and haven't heard back from them yet. |
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anyway of making it use the quote system when they are qutoing in the newserver? For example it does this
>Lets look at what the >word of God has to say. This is going to be a series of posts but >today lets start with first Corinthians. and i want it to do something like this Quote:
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It is technically possible to convert ">"s into Quotes, but people do use other type of prefix for quotes on Usenet. ...and also, you may end up with too many level of quotes if the posts contain ">>>>>>>>". |
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Your problem is probably caused by the server not letting you to post. |
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I got my webhost to open port 119 for outgoing but my posts still aren't propagating to usenet. I logged in to my host via telnet and went to news.giganews.com on port 119. I was able to read posts *and* submit posts to usenet without any problems. Doesn't that mean that port 119 is open for outgoing traffic and I should be able to post from my forum???
I would like to try something else. Could I connect to giganews.com from another port, such as port 80 and post and read messages? if I wanted to do that, where would I find the 119 in the script and change it? I checked nntp.php and gateway.php and saw one instance of port 119 in each, would that be all that is required to connect via port 80 instead of 119? |
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Awesome script. I am setting it up to reply to a mailing list, is it possible to have the script always email out with the same email address?
Example: forumuser <permuser@domain.com> forumuser will change but the email will not. Thanks |
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Runned .../gateway.php?debug=1 on 2.2.1 with a fresh install 3.0.3.
I can import but none of my posts are being submitted to usenet. I got the following database error. Setting: lastpostid: 0 before running. Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3: Invalid SQL: UPDATE nntp_settings SET value = WHERE varname = 'last_postid' mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE varname = 'last_postid'' at line 3 mysql error number: 1064 Date: Friday 22nd of October 2004 12:15:08 AM Script: http://www.xxxxxxxx/gateway.php?debug=1 Referer: Username: Unregistered IP Address: 6xxxxxxxxxx Thank you for your time. HTML Code:
Log following: Gateway version 2.2.1 1 group(s) gatewayed. Connecting to server, server says: 200 SurgeNews News-west.u (Version 1.0a-7) http://surgenews.com posting OK Server responded after user name: 381 Helo xxxxxx password required Server responded after password: 281 Authorization accepted Info for europa.test at spamkiller.usenet.com: 211 8 2676 2783 europa.test selected Getting message number 2677: 'alt.bananas,vegas.motss,be.politics,europa.test,alt.support' from anna parker. New thread. Getting message number 2678: 'Re: > > > > matt parker alias jeff@yahoo.com matt parker alias t dchenka@yahoo.com matt parker alias erik vonlindtherzog@yahoo.com matt parker alias eriklint@yahoo.com the dismissed university employees suffered financial loss due to matt parker matt' from anna parker. New thread. Getting message number 2702: 'Re: erik van lint ++++ for brains child molester chessbase thief aka e lunsen kuleuven erik van lint alias erick vanlunsen herzog child molester chessbase thief aka e lunsen kuleuven erik van lint is a stinking piece of ++++ that steals likes child p' from Erik Van Lint E Lunsen. New thread. Getting message number 2736: 'Re: all personals at trueloves.com are fake and the whole site sucks' from matthew parker. New thread. Getting message number 2780: 'ignore' from Pedro Graca. New thread. Getting message number 2781: 'ignore' from Pedro Graca. New thread. Getting message number 2782: 'last ignore test' from Pedro Graca. New thread. Getting message number 2783: 'distr. test' from Patrick Ahrer. New thread. <html><head><title>Forums Database Error</title><style type="text/css"><!--.error { font: 11px tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; }--></style></head> <body></table></td></tr></table></form> <blockquote><p class="error"> </p><p class="error"><b>There seems to have been a slight problem with the Forums database.</b><br /> Please try again by pressing the <a href="javascript:window.location=window.location;">refresh</a> button in your browser.</p><p class="error">An E-Mail has been dispatched to our <a href="mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxx">Technical Staff</a>, who you can also contact if the problem persists.</p><p class="error">We apologise for any inconvenience.</p></blockquote> <!-- Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3: Invalid SQL: UPDATE nntp_settings SET value = WHERE varname = 'last_postid' mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE varname = 'last_postid'' at line 3 mysql error number: 1064 Date: Friday 22nd of October 2004 12:15:08 AM Script: xxxxxxx/gateway.php?debug=1 Referer: Username: Unregistered IP Address: xxxx --> </body></html> |
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